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How to use livings in a sentence

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A notable pluralist, he received lucrative ecclesiastical preferments from the king, including prebends in six cathedrals, pensions, and livings.
They earned their livings as mechanics, foundry workers, refrigerator repairmen, and custodians.
The majority of benefices in these deaneries were unlikely to attract the covetous attention of pluralist clergy seeking to acquire rich livings.
A total of 50 livings were in the hands of 22 pluralist clerks, which represents about 5 per cent of the incumbent parish clergy.
Fleet-footed animals, such as gazelles and cheetahs, aren't the only livings things that rely on speed for their survival.
The king restored him to his household and council, with his livings and possessions, from which he had been disseized before.
They mostly earned their livings in other clerkly trades, as journalists, parliamentary reporters or lawyers.
In 1704 the revenue was diverted to found Queen Anne's Bounty, to augment the incomes of poor livings.
In the Church Donne held several livings and the divinity readership at Lincoln's Inn.
The landowner would have a very big say in who was appointed to the various livings and would frequently endow the churches and provide running expenses.
As has been the case for decades, most of the country's top players earn their livings abroad.
Farmers, trappers, fishers and woodlot owners and their families are the people who make their livings from the land.
Customers rely on us, and our responsibilities stretch widely through the communities in which we earn our livings.
The number of people who earn their livings farming tobacco exceeds this figure as an estimated 170,000 full-time labourers are required.
Others make their livings on land at the southern edge of the boreal forest that has been converted into farmland.
An absentee pluralist on a grand scale, he farmed out his livings, usually for much more than their nominal value, and supervised them through agents.
Here's a glimpse at the many ways people have earned their livings in and around Prince George.
The bishop was entitled to appoint to all livings lapsed for 6 months.
From the beginning of the nineteenth century, Cajuns made their lives and livings in the swamp.
Despite the PPG7's poor progress, Mr Schnyder believes such schemes to find sustainable livings for forest dwellers can be made to work.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But there is a method, by the favour of the crown, of holding such livings in commendam.
That the bishops and kirkmen should be reponed in their former places, and be suffered to intromit with their livings.
They had twenty or thirty livings in the archbishopric of Manila.
What thinkst thou of gaining fair lands and livings, by wedding a Saxon, after the fashion of the followers of the Conqueror?
The Dominicans have only a dozen livings in the archbishopric of Manila.
Nor are these princely livings expended in Ireland by their possessors.
He was eventually given several small livings and other church positions in and near Dublin, and at one of these, Laracor, he made his home for another nine years.
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