sexton in English

noun
1
a person who looks after a church and churchyard, sometimes acting as bell-ringer and formerly as a gravedigger.
Although many of Doyle's paintings depict the comical and amusing characters of his environment, it should be noted that Doyle was an intensely religious person who attended church regularly and served as the sexton of his church.

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1. Burial of a mouse by sexton beetles, Microphorus species.

2. The sexton came up and told him to be quiet.

3. Anne Sexton is the most important confessional poet in America.

4. In the last lived old Mr Piggott, the sexton of St Andrew's.

5. The old sexton soon got better, and was about to work again.

6. The old sexton, leaning on a crutch, was taking the air at his cottage door.

7. The sexton reached out to push him into his seat, but two other Negroes intervened.

8. She has also been reinvented by modern writers like Anne Sexton and Gwen Strauss.

9. As a confessional poet, Anne Sexton followed Sylvia Plath's example and ultimately committed suicide.

10. I peered into the church and tried to see the sexton at bell rope, but couldn't.

11. The one beside the church was used by the sexton and the others were let to tenants.

12. The original and most successful coach is Dave Sexton, who led the U21s from 1977 to 1990.

13. Then with a tremendous pedaling motion, the sexton moves the mouse forward, possibly a half inch (1.3 centimeters).

14. Jerry Brown: AG Sessions is unleashing 'a reign of terror' John Sexton Mar 07, 2018 7:21 PM ET

15. Finally a parson and a sexton get stuck, too, and have to run after Simpleton and his goose.

16. However t it is well established that plant hormones are involved in control of Abscission (Sexton and Roberts 1982)

17. 22 Finally a parson and a sexton get stuck, too,(www.Sentencedict.com) and have to run after Simpleton and his goose.

18. June Appal Recordings is a record label that was established by Appalshop to record and distribute music of and from central Appalachia.Artists with June Appal include Buell Kazee, Morgan Sexton, Lee Sexton, Carla Gover, and Nimrod Workman.June Appal distributes compilation recordings taken from the annual Seedtime on the Cumberland festival in Whitesburg, Kentucky.

19. 760 Am is San Diego's talk radio station, featuring: Armstrong &Amp; Getty, Mike Slater, Mark Larson, Mark Levin, Buck Sexton, and Red Eye Radio.

20. Up to 10% cash back  · Alvie married Amanda Jane Green (born Sexton) on month day 1948, at age 41

21. Sexton is eager to keep his side together and has already discussed with Football Association officials the prospects of arranging friendly fixtures.

22. Counterpoint Novel Makes the National Book Award Longlist! Posted on September 28, 2017 Congratulations to Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, whose debut novel A Kind of Freedom has been nominated for a National Book Award for Fiction!

23. Read the latest article version by Jefrey Shumba, Affraic McLoughlin, Lamorna Browne, Alenka Schmid, Maev-Ann Wren, Anne Hickey, Peter Kelly, Kathleen Bennett, Daniela Rohde, Eithne Sexton, at HRB Open Research.

24. CUOMO’S NURSING HOME SCANDAL RAISES QUESTIONS FOR ONE OF HIS SENIOR AIDES BY JOE SEXTON MARCH 10, 2021 PROPUBLICA Some of his close Confidantes and most loyal aides have chosen to resign rather than defend his rhetoric.

25. Confessional poetry is the poetry of the personal or "I." This style of writing emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s and is associated with poets such as Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and W

26. The feud between Sexton and Osgood and Hudson reached its apogee after a 4–2 home defeat to West Ham United on Boxing Day 1973, after Chelsea had led 2–0 at half-time; the pair were both sold a few months later.