How to Use preach in a Sentence

preach

verb
  • The mayor continues to preach about the need for patience.
  • His followers listened to him preach the gospel.
  • Practice what you preach—don't smoke if you tell your children not to smoke.
  • The minister preached to the congregation about the need for tolerance.
  • I don't like being preached at about how I should live my life.
  • Have you ever heard that minister preach?
  • Their mother has always preached the value of a good education.
  • The priest preached a regular sermon that Sunday.
  • Coach Daboll and the whole staff preach that all the time.
    — Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Thank you to our fans who preached the gospel from the start.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The lyrics, meanwhile, preached the gospel of car culture.
    — Matthew Guerrieri, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2018
  • Jesus said go into all the world and preach the gospel.
    — al, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Now, preach to us again how Trump is the threat to democracy.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 31 July 2024
  • That’s what Wall Street is preaching — at least for now.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Paul is brought to preach in the Areopagus, for centuries the center of civic life in the city.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 7 May 2023
  • Trump had been preaching about this for the longest time.
    — ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Officials have been dispatched around the world to preach the tougher rules.
    — Adam Satariano, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
  • But when a coach has to preach it and teach it, players must perform it.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2020
  • And the oddity in that is in sports who preach the opposite.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 18 June 2018
  • The coaches preach defense, but there isn’t much of it being played.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2022
  • Churches, of which there were many, preached to full pews on Sundays.
    — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
  • But its attempt to preach runs cold and only shines a light on what might’ve been.
    — Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at the age of 88, knew how to preach in the social media era.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Your audience is here to listen and learn, not to be preached to.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The Nazis banned his books and barred him from lecturing and preaching.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Now is not the time to preach to others if their opinions differ from yours.
    — oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Blanchard was called to preach in 2009 but stepped away from ministry a few years ago.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Neumann set the vision, collected the checks, preached the gospel.
    — Alison Griswold, Quartz, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Give Schmidt better voices — not the same ones, preaching the same, tired, failing stuff, on the same insular loop.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
  • Deacons can witness marriages, perform baptisms and preach during Mass.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025

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