Get to know Preach better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like prophesy or lecture.
Preach in a sentence
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Preach meaning
- To give a sermon.
- To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
- To advise or recommend earnestly.
Using Preach
- The main meaning on this page is: To give a sermon. | To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue. | To advise or recommend earnestly.
- Useful related words include: prophesy, lecture, talk, advocate.
- In the example corpus, preach often appears in combinations such as: to preach, preach the, and preach.
Context around Preach
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Preach
- In this selection, "preach" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, postmodernists, disdain, christ and patience stand out and add context to how "preach" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and also preach and advise and can t preach patience enough. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "preach" sits close to words such as adhering, adrenaline and advert, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with preach
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I can’t preach patience enough. (6 words)
If only they would practice what they preach. (8 words)
It was the evangelical movement which first allowed women to preach. (11 words)
And the Israelite Board of Rabbis’ rejection of factions that preach disdain for Jews does not make it a recognized movement of worldwide mainstream Jewry, nor does it affect the halachic status of its members or the congregants under their guidance. (41 words)
I preached my first sermon at the age of 12. I began “every Sunday” preaching at 16. It is one of the greatest honors of my life to preach the Word, but still does not ultimately define who I am. (40 words)
He mingled with people from different groups from intellectuals, merchants, preachers, farmers, and ordinary people to Sufi dervishes and even thieves, trying to learn and study and also preach and advise people to gravitate to wisdom and morality. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
And all the while, we will be preparing for a three thousand person outreach on July 4th and then another youth camp that I will preach in Rochelle, Virginia, immediately after that.
And the Israelite Board of Rabbis’ rejection of factions that preach disdain for Jews does not make it a recognized movement of worldwide mainstream Jewry, nor does it affect the halachic status of its members or the congregants under their guidance.
And when I think about folks nowadays that I feel like practice what they preach in their music and in real life, I think of Eric Church.
And while she continues to preach the larger message, Thompson enters Friday with a legitimate shot at becoming just the second woman to make a cut in a PGA Tour event.
And you know, I'm in my 40s, it's definitely time I should practice what I preach - I'm always reminding everyone of the importance of strength training," she reflects.
Anti-humanist emissaries like Musk and Thiel or May and Knight might preach from the pulpit of pure reason, but their worldviews are suffused with religious zeal, with the promise of enchantment.
Besides the nifty special effects and weird storyline, what makes a good movie is what it do: it doesn’t preach at you.
But Graham, 71, said: “We are excited to preach the gospel in Glasgow.
But this is not an idol question, for a writer's past and experience illuminate his or her work despite what the postmodernists preach.
Even more so, as a seminarian in formation for the Priesthood, I see a great task ahead of me to preach Christ’s message of life to the world.
Every Sunday morning I receive a text sent from a pastor’s wife that encourages me to preach the word.
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
He mingled with people from different groups from intellectuals, merchants, preachers, farmers, and ordinary people to Sufi dervishes and even thieves, trying to learn and study and also preach and advise people to gravitate to wisdom and morality.
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I can’t preach patience enough.
I don’t preach, I don’t tell people what to do.
If only they would practice what they preach.
I preached my first sermon at the age of 12. I began “every Sunday” preaching at 16. It is one of the greatest honors of my life to preach the Word, but still does not ultimately define who I am.
It was the evangelical movement which first allowed women to preach.
Mr Netanyahu said Mr Erdogan was “the last person who can preach morality to us”.
Common combinations with preach
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to preach 89×
- preach the 31×
- and preach 16×
- preach to 14×
- they preach 13×
- preach and 10×
- preach in 8×
- will preach 7×
- preach against 7×
- preach peace 6×