How to Use altar boy in a Sentence

altar boy

noun
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  • At that time on Guam, the church required altar boys to join the Boy Scouts.
    — USA TODAY, 5 May 2018
  • Most of the eight had served as altar boys, Janci said.
    — oregonlive.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Boy Scouts and altar boys would meet and hang out at the Mangilao parish.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
  • As a child, Dwight learned Latin and served as an altar boy at his local Catholic parish.
    — Emily Ludolph, New York Times, 16 July 2019
  • Noaker said his client was a New York teen who was an altar boy.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 21 June 2018
  • But the charges against him only involve an 11-year-old altar boy.
    — Mary Hudetz, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
  • At that time the former altar boy sued the Archdiocese.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The altar boy who might charm the nuns could take on ferocities.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 7 May 2018
  • The local parish was a block away, and Carroll spent many hours there — as an altar boy, in the Boy Scouts, playing sports.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Wilson was a junior priest when Fletcher, a Catholic priest based in the Hunter Valley, abused the altar boys.
    — Bard Wilkinson, CNN, 22 May 2018
  • One graduated from grade school there in 1956 and served as an altar boy.
    — oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Drew was arrested in August 2019 in the case involving the altar boy.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Inside, church-goers will find a marble altar, a gift from the Catholic church where Barry was an altar boy.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Denton confided in an older altar boy, who said Apuron had abused him too.
    — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Mario, on the other hand, is a dedicated student and a former altar boy.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
  • In the world of undercover informants, Kenyel Brown was no altar boy.
    — Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Riley's younger brother Warren is a playful but kind-hearted teenager who works as an altar boy at the church.
    — Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The boy kept his distance from Kamiaz after the incident but continued to serve as an altar boy.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Joseph Kennedy is a particularly cold father to his small son Bobby, the altar boy.
    — Richard D. Kahlenberg, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Then, little altar boys came out carrying candles and incense, leading the way for the first paso.
    — Amanda Hearst, Marie Claire, 9 May 2011
  • For parents, having a church also meant their sons could earn a little money by serving as altar boys.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • At one rededication, an altar boy pulled the plug on Lennon’s microphone.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The movie also starred Humphrey Bogart in the story of a former altar boy gone homicidally wrong.
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 12 Jan. 2022
  • One who worried about Barboza’s proximity to children in the church, particularly the altar boys with him at Mass, was the first to warn the diocese.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Buck, who was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy, also was molested by several priests and a monsignor, according to his lawyer.
    — Matthew Ormsethstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Robert Mizic, 47, said his life was taken away as an altar boy 35 years ago, when he was abused by his parish priest at a Catholic Church in suburban Philadelphia.
    — Frank Miles, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Another advocate for the nones is Kevin Bolling, who grew up in a military family and served as a Roman Catholic altar boy.
    — chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The Jonathan Glazer film was booed by critics at its 2004 Venice premiere, but one can offer nothing but high praise for Kidman’s ability to pull off altar boy hair.
    — Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Quartzy, 22 Aug. 2019
  • An altar boy testified at Wilson’s trial that in the mid-1970s, the then-priest refused to believe the boy’s allegations of abuse made in the confessional.
    — Rod McGuirk, USA TODAY, 23 May 2018
  • Croteau, a former altar boy at St. Mary’s in Springfield when Lavigne was assigned there, died from multiple blunt force injuries to his head, records show.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2021

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