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How to use acolyte in a sentence

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You can see why I haven't made it up to priestess yet, I'm still an acolyte.
Not a single fact in that plagiarised thesis was untrue, a former Campbell acolyte averred in coy defense of his one-time master.
But Lowell remains a more audacious, more unpresentable maker than even the most sympathetic acolyte can allow.
This work, depicting a woman in a long robe sitting on a red chaise, could have been done by a star Matisse acolyte.
I remember seeing her praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction.
Daisy, the unloved eight-year-old in a large family, becomes the willing acolyte to the tender and solicitous Theresa.
Afterward he commented to me that I had reminded him of his days as an acolyte when he was a teenager.
One young acolyte has such a rictus from grinning at his master's jokes that it looks like a physical affliction.
I remember seeing Mrs. Zito praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction.
The water spills out over the baptismal font, drenching the minister and the acolyte holding the green book.
A bishop and his acolyte attend her, while courtiers in black robes emerge from the gloom on either side of the bed.
One of these heroes is an insect-loving contemporary of Charles Darwin, the other a crocodile-wrestling Steve Irwin acolyte.
In 1940, he was martyred at the tip of an ice pick wielded by a Soviet agent posing as an acolyte.
Still, the tradition of a hero with a younger, or everyman, acolyte stretches back to antiquity.
Yee was, as Brown writes, a Brown acolyte at one point, representing a district of middle class single-family homeowners.
In the meantime, he serves as an acolyte at Grace Episcopal Church, and has had the honor of carrying the cross.
The only other dark face in the photo is that of Francois, who, dressed in the cassock and surplice of an acolyte, stands to one side of the pastor.
A Derrida acolyte describes the first, giddy days of her conversion.
In the meeting, also attended by her acolyte, she tells the president in an excited voice how she had just met with antiwar protesters who were gathering in Washington.
The ultimate acolyte in her youth, now she would be a patient mentor to young writers, with a Pulitzer Prize, two ex-husbands, and a poet laureateship behind her.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The gospeller fell down on his knees, and the acolyte that held the candles to read by dashed them down and fled away.
I was to wear the red gown and the white cape of an acolyte!
An acolyte does well not to express his emotions too clearly.
An acolyte appeared, followed by the aged priest in his surplice.
If you weren't an acolyte, I'd take a poke at you just to see you bounce.
Waldron in particular, but that you may not lose your sense of proportion and mistake the acolyte for the high priest.
He acted as Server or Acolyte or Thurifer every Sunday with an eagle eye to keep the ceremonial up to scratch.
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