sexton
IPA: sˈɛkstʌn
noun
- A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.
- A sexton beetle.
- A surname originating as an occupation.
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Examples of "sexton" in Sentences
- Purcell lost to Sexton by split decision.
- Next was the Charlie Sexton Sextet in 1995.
- Sexton is the author of ten books of poetry.
- Sexton herself was in the audience that night.
- Anne Sexton did not live to see the broadcast.
- That's a blacklist, and it was implemented by Sexton.
- A sexton told the father that he could teach the boy.
- On the north side is the former sexton's lean to shed.
- Sexton is seen as the modern model of the confessional poet.
- A few houses and the Sexton elevator are all that remain of Sexton.