Sample Sentences for
seminary
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    And when Corrine was old enough, she sent her to Spelman Seminary where Aunt Theodosia had gone.  (source)
    Seminary = a school for training ministers
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    At thirty-one, Graham was the youngest college president in America, manning the helm at Northwestern Schools, a small Christian Bible school, liberal arts college, and seminary in Minneapolis.  (source)
    seminary = a school for training clerics -- usually ministers, priests, or rabbis
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    "Like going to bed in seminary and waking up at Ole Miss," Richard says, and they both laugh.  (source)
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    A preacher from the Seminary began a low, insistent, theological argument with a young lieutenant,  (source)
    Seminary = a school for training ministers
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    They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.†  (source)
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    They send the seminarians there, too.†  (source)
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    The U.S. wants to be respected by the Vietnamese, and yet they're propping up this nobody seminarian as her president.†  (source)
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    He'd studied for the ministry, and while he left because of what he saw as hypocrisy among the seminary students, he was still very religious.  (source)
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    An exhorter—a secret preacher—one, who in defiance of all the tenets and processes of organized and historic, as well as hieratic, religious powers and forms (theological seminaries, organized churches and their affiliations and product—all carefully and advisedly and legitimately because historically and dogmatically interpreting the word of God) choosing to walk forth and without ordination after any fashion conduct an unauthorized and hence nondescript mission.†  (source)
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    Telling seminarians to hurry turned them into bad citizens.†  (source)
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    His father wanted him to be a seminarian, but the First World War broke out and when Hoss was but a stripling of sixteen he joined the army.†  (source)
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    The attached seminary has a well-documented history of unorthodoxy and was once the clandestine meeting hall for numerous secret societies.  (source)
    seminary = a school for training priests
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    Many of the boys who sat in those front benches a few years ago are perhaps now in distant lands, in the burning tropics, or immersed in professional duties or in seminaries, or voyaging over the vast expanse of the deep or, it may be, already called by the great God to another life and to the rendering up of their stewardship.†  (source)
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