prefects in English

noun
1
a chief officer, magistrate, or regional governor in certain countries.
the prefect of police
2
in some schools, a senior student authorized to enforce discipline.
The school chapel became the focal point of life, discipline was enforced through prefects and team games emphasized.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "prefects" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "prefects", or refer to the context using the word "prefects" in the English Dictionary.

1. The work will be carried out at the initiative of defence zone prefects.

2. He gathered his satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, police magistrates, and all the administrators of the jurisdictional districts.

3. He then arranged for an inauguration ceremony to which he invited his satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, and other high officials.

4. The prefects also kicked you, as a rule with the inside of the shoe, but occasionally you felt the toe.

5. There are two types of Albigenses: one called “Believers,” and the others, “Perfects.” Prefects have renounced all material possession, sexual relationships and are vegetarians.

6. 2 Then King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the administrators of the provinces* to come to the inauguration of the image that King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar had set up.

7. “To see my three kids Badged as prefects is an emotional moment for me especially with what we are going through right now as a family,” “It is a source of new strength for my husband despite not being present to see the induction,” she said.

8. 27 And the satraps, prefects, governors, and the high officials of the king who were assembled there+ saw that the fire had had no effect on* the bodies of these men;+ not a hair of their heads had been singed, their cloaks looked no different, and there was not even the smell of fire on them.

9. Maurer suggests that, as descriptive Appellatives are subjoined to the proper name, "all the Assyrians" in the second hemistich of the verse (as the verse ought to be divided at "Koa"), so Pekod, Shoa, and Koa must be Appellatives descriptive of "The Babylonians and … Chaldeans" in the first hemistich; "Pekod" meaning "prefects"; Shoa …