Sexton is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SEXTON in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a church caretaker or bellringer
• a person who looks after a church and churchyard, typically acting as bell-ringer and gravedigger.
• official in charge of a church and churchyard
• An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
• United States poet (1928-1974)
• an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a maintenance worker of a church

Words related to SEXTON

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Words that contain SEXTON

sextons14 sextoness16 sextonship22 sextonesses18 sextonships23

How to use SEXTON in a sentence

• Who had departed? The sexton crossed the green on his way to the shop to make the coffin, and informed us.
• When they had all gone away, and the sexton had come out and locked the gate behind him, Sophy crept back.
• Waters followed, and leaning out of the window watched with simple pleasure the efforts of the amateur sexton.
• Toby Crooke, the sexton, was lying dead in the old coach-house in the inn yard.
• His father had been sexton of the ancient Church of St.
• The sexton then took it, and in a short time Denis Kelly was fixed for ever in his narrow bed.
• The polite sexton conducted the strangers up the center aisle and put them into a good pew.
• Two persons, besides the clergyman and sexton, alone attended the ceremony.
• The sheriff was one of them, and the clerk of the court, and the old negro sexton of the church.
• It was during this sad time that I met that distinguished orator, Thomas Sexton, to whom John Barry was good enough to introduce me.
• Andre Willem, 23 years old, sexton, who was tied to a tree and burned alive.
• The sexton set out, whistling for joy of the slaying of the Scot, but when he came back he was running as fast as he might, and scarce could speak for very fear.
• At the touch of the knife the blood came, and the foot gave a kick, whereon the sexton hastened back with these tidings to the cure.
• The young gentleman and the great sexton were not on good terms, and when Brown, having summoned Mr.
• The writer has frequently seen beggars in tatters conducted, by the sexton, to the best seats in the church.
• I had a sexton, when I was clerk, that should have dug three graves while he is digging one.
• The sexton flung the quilt off with his arms and legs, knelt up in bed, and looked blankly at his wife.
• The office had some resemblance to that of a sexton, for he spent most of it among the dead in the silence of desertion, never seeing anyone till his watch was finished.
• The minister threw a few stones on the spot, and next day asked the sexton who lay there.
• But for this he was already too late, scarcely reaching the room indeed, before Sexton appeared, announcing his mission.
• He heard Sexton silently close the door behind him, but it was not until she moved slightly that he was able to perceive her presence directly across from where he stood.
• He stepped in directly behind the leader, and Sexton followed.
• The reaction from the excitement of the evening left Sexton dull and drowsy once he felt secure from any possible danger.
• It was the sexton, who had put on a flowing, white dress, and who wore a wax mask, which bore striking resemblance to his mother, as the son declared.
• The sexton Ivan Nicolayevitch brought my portrait, which he has painted from a photograph.
• First came the school children with cross and banner, then the priest and the sexton.
• Then the sexton came along, and saw the parson following on the heels of the three girls.

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