How to Use parsonage in a Sentence

parsonage

noun
Definition of parsonagenext
Synonyms for parsonagenext
  • In 1877, a parsonage was built to the north of the church.
    — Evan Casey, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
  • The special Lenten Bible Study will be across the street in the parsonage began Feb. 15.
    — Courant Community, 27 Mar. 2018
  • In the center of Hebron is Gale House, which was built in 1824 and has been used over the decades as a home and a parsonage.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • At the end of 2016, our church decided to sell our parsonage in town.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Jerome Jankowski lives directly south of the church in a home that was once the parsonage.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Or that the church, its hall and parsonage once sat in open countryside.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2022
  • The parsonage, built in 1914, houses the church offices, which have been moved upstairs.
    — al, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The night before, on Oct. 30, Mairena had arrived at the parsonage next to the church to flashing police lights.
    — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Following the break from the church, the Jonas family moved out of the parsonage house and into a two-bedroom home.
    — Ilana Frost, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Across the street at the church parsonage, 95 Cemetery Road, the regular monthly tag sale will take place.
    — courant.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Someone else must have a farm, or a parsonage, or something.
    — Ginny Hogan, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Hunter grew up in Methodist parsonages throughout Kentucky until the Shorts moved to Nashville in 1944.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The white supremacist group set off a bomb in his parsonage in 1956, damaging the home.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Church plants the seed Carmel United Methodist's pantry, which had its beginnings 25 years ago in a closet, now has its own home in the church's former parsonage.
    — Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2017
  • Antwon Mans, 36, is ordained as a pastor and lives in a former church parsonage with his wife Cynthia, 39, and children.
    — Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The painting, which consists of oil on wooden panels, is of the garden at the parsonage where his father served as pastor.
    — Giovanni Legorano, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The parsonage exclusion came up in the Warnock/Walker senate runoff in Georgia.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • It’s a celebration under the heavy boughs of trees near the parsonage, peopled by family past and present.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The parsonage in which Astrup grew up figured prominently in his works over his career.
    — John Oseid, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • It’s Methodist moving day today in North Alabama, the day when dozens of ministers move in to a new office at a new church, and often to a new parsonage.
    — al.com, 3 July 2019
  • There’s also no state limit on parsonage tax exemptions and 28 clergy homes in the state are worth more than $1 million.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Bishop Otterbein, then 85 years of age and in ill health, did not wish to leave his four-room cottage and directed that the new parsonage be rented and the money given to the poor.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Reinterring the remains near the monument will remove them from the front yard of the church parsonage of Iglesia Biblica Berea.
    — Tribune Media Services, al, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Donations of good quality usable items are welcome to be dropped off on the parsonage porch by Wednesday, June 16.
    — courant.com, 28 May 2021
  • The Alabama sites include churches, church parsonages, homes and a hotel.
    — AL.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Last year Oliver, her husband, Robb Stout, and their 3-year-old daughter moved from their Washington bungalow to a white clapboard house that was once a parsonage.
    — Jura Koncius, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Donations of good quality usable items (no clothing, large appliances or large furniture can be accepted) are welcome to be dropped off on the parsonage porch before the day of the sale.
    — courant.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The collection at Sotheby’s includes other items that provide glimpses into everyday life at the parsonage.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 25 May 2021
  • Flowers’s dad was an associate pastor, so her family lived in a parsonage on church property.
    — ELLE, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The building originally was the parsonage for Lyons Congregational Church and then became a private home.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017

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