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How to use the word preaches in a Sentence?

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In such a school that preaches diversity and making sure that they understand the history of POC in America, I was shocked that [Sheng] would show something like this in something that’s supposed to be a safe space.

Olivia Cook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When the fox preaches, look to your geese. #Hotspot

Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

He who has his purse full preaches to the poor man.

Proverb

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4 years ago

Every one preaches for his own saint.

Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

When the fox preaches to the goose her neck is in danger.

Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

For a party that preaches tolerance, this once again demonstrates they have very little civility. When somebody is sick enough to resort to spitting on someone, it just emphasizes a sickness and desperation and the fact that we're winning.

Eric Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The tolerance of the United States and Israel with the crimes committed by Bashar al-Assad will not contribute to stability in the region. The revolution of the Syrian people aims to end oppression and gain freedom, what is happening in Syria is a violation of the values of freedom and human rights that America preaches around the world. The American administration should not remain silent in the face of the crimes committed by the regime.

Omar Mushaweh

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Jane Jacobs is an astonishing warrior citizen, who in Jane Jacobs book preaches action, it's all about getting out and looking around and being skeptical and understanding the way things work, so you're not a victim.

Matt Tyrnauer

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Islam preaches freedom to slaves, not slavery. Slavery was the status quo when Islam came around, judaism, Christianity, Greek, Roman, and Persian civilizations all practiced it and took the females of their enemies as sex slaves. So Islam found this abhorrent practice and worked to gradually remove it.

Abdel Fattah Alawari

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The ISIS' Ramadan message specifically preaches that jihad is 10 times more obligatory during Ramadan and that those who die in jihad will be rewarded by Allah ten times as much as during the rest of the year, there will be The ISIS ' supporters who have waited to strike until now in order to get the maximum award and those who were considering an attack and will now feel more pressure to actually do The ISIS '.

Ryan Mauro

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

Margaret Mead

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He preaches well that lives well.

Miguel de Cervantes

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10 years ago

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Mother Teresa

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10 years ago

That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

Logan Pearsall Smith

added by anonymous
10 years ago

What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.

Francois Arouet

added by anonymous
14 years ago

What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners If we were to rely on our works--my God, what would become of us

George Frederick Handel

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Burroughs

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14 years ago

When the fox preaches, look to the geese.

German proverb

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14 years ago

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Confucius

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14 years ago

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