rectory

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Recent Examples of rectory Jacobs was ordered out of the rectory just a few days after being put on leave, and has been staying at a West Hartford home provided by a parishioner. Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2025 Dedicated in 1906, the church was razed in 1995, along with its rectory, convent and grade school. Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025 Over the years the parish has grown with the addition of a rectory, a parish hall and most recently its two-story parish center where staff offices, classrooms and meeting rooms are located. Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025 Those churches often had schools, convents, gymnasiums and rectories. Lainey Seyler, Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for rectory
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Noun
  • Neighbors fear ‘screaming, shouting, and splashing’ The Sun first reported that Horner and Halliwell had sent off planning permission last year to build a 40ft x 16ft swimming pool at their vicarage house residence, which Horner bought for £2 million ($2.5 million) in 2006.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
  • In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.
    Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • When Johnson retired, Seay-Hubbard purchased the home and converted it into a parsonage of the church until clergy no longer wanted to reside there.
    Jennifer Lindahl, The Tennessean, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The church building and parsonage, both owned by the National Park Service, are part of the national historical park along with Tubman’s former brick home, a visitor center, an administrative building, and the reconstructed Home for the Aged and Indigent Negroes, which are privately owned.
    Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024
Noun
  • The mesmerizing Milanese manse Portaluppi designed in the early 1930s for the industrialist Necchi Campiglios serves as the luscious background for Guadagnino’s tale of familial intrigue.
    Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Unlike Bundchen, Brady doesn’t appear to have moved onto a new relationship, so perhaps the waterfront two-level manse is too big for his needs.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Shapiro and his family had been sleeping in a different part of the residence, police said.
    Time, Time, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Residency And Citizenship Opportunities The Cayman Islands offers residence through investment in real estate.
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • When Iyer’s wife accompanies him on a visit to the hermitage, the monks greet her warmly.
    Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The life that Iyer brings to the hermitage has troubles, too.
    Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In September, during Hurricane Helene, the French Broad River surged into commercial corridors in Asheville, North Carolina, wiping out restaurants, breweries, stores, and dwellings.
    Nikil Saval, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The bivouac is just a temporary perch where hundreds of bees will swarm to and cluster as scout bees look for a new permanent dwelling.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Siba said the security forces inspected the document, searched the house for weapons and, finding none, told the family to remain inside.
    Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • There was the infamous time McMahon punished Triple H for hugging Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and Shawn Michaels in the center of the ring at a house show, breaking kayfabe when this was something wrestlers didn't do.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The death toll from Tuesday (April 8) roof collapse at the Jet Set club in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic has climbed to more than 113 people.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The cause of the roof collapse wasn't immediately clear as authorities investigated.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Rectory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectory. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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