How to Use rabbi in a Sentence

rabbi

noun
Definition of rabbinext
Synonyms for rabbinext
  • The next day, the rabbi was asked to name the least expensive meat.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Popal was on a train to Brussels from Paris when the rabbi got back to her.
    — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The bride and groom did their own vows in front of their nearly 600 guests and a rabbi.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • This is the strength Mattie Pil and the rabbi have built with 40 years of their patience and love.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The Hasid stated his business, and to his surprise, the rabbi agreed.
    — Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The rabbi returned with a can of soda and a plastic cup.
    — Bobby Ross Jr., BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • To honor the Jewish sabbath, the rabbi will not be on mic.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The rabbi sounded a burst of short blasts, followed by one long blast.
    — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The statute is named for Josef Neumann, who was stabbed to death at a rabbi’s home during Hanukkah of 2020.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But in the last hour of the day, prosecutors played the 911 call that the rabbi made from his hiding place amid the shooting.
    — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • Your spouse, your priest/rabbi, your child, your neighbor and your best friend are all going to take the mic.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Dear Amy: Our rabbi thought our noon wedding was at 6 p.m.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2022
  • On the last day of shiva, the rabbi offered to lead a brief reading of Kaddish herself.
    — Matthew Schnipper, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The stranger then began his verbal barrage and tore off part of the rabbi’s clothing.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • All of it was inspired by the true story of a New Jersey rabbi who had his wife murdered in 1994.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2022
  • Indeed, while no rabbi pierces the veil there, a woman named Frieda Vizel does.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Nevertheless, the fake rabbi had to emerge from a real place.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The chief rabbi of Rome threatened to cut off relations with the Vatican.
    — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The interest was so high that in 1950 a special commission was formed to help Berlin’s top rabbi sift through the requests.
    — Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Within a month the Nazis started deportations to death camps and took away our rabbi.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Not much else is known about Bell’s Joanne, but Brody’s Noah is a charming rabbi who is stuck in his ways and used to playing things safe, according to the streamer.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
  • An 18-year-old man is accused of two armed carjackings of a woman in Cuyahoga Falls and a rabbi in Solon that happened in a span of two hours.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Once back home in Lakewood, N.J., the rabbi would distribute the citrons to family.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Brooks is the rabbi of Congregation Bene Shalom in Skokie.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Since most towns were too poor to employ more than one rabbi, a man who wanted a good pulpit needed to be able to pass the government test.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Ben-Gvir is a disciple of a racist rabbi who was assassinated in the 1990s and has promised a hard line against the Palestinians.
    — Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • In the countryside there were white people in military uniforms, there were blacks, there were rabbis, and priests.
    — Matthew Scully, National Review, 16 May 2023
  • In the photograph, is the rabbi’s father, Antonio Abramo Aiello, as a child.
    — Frances D’emilio, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2022
  • The mansion was repossessed by the bank, which sold it to the Rebbe’s father-in-law, a rabbi who had just fled the Nazis in Poland and was looking for a headquarters for the Lubavitchers.
    — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Minsker wondered if a native tree blessed by a rabbi might be a suitable replacement.
    — Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 24 July 2022

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