How To Use tonsured In A Sentence
- It was short and neatly tonsured and he had a brown beard, finely trimmed to a point that just skimmed the deep rolled collar of his habit. Sick Cycle Carousel
- Which might well be the case, seeing this man was undoubtedly tonsured, in authority here, and a priest. His Disposition
- In "Office of the Dead," for example, the hooded figures in the background are clearly separated from the tonsured clerics in the middle-ground, who in turn stand apart from the robed eminences in the foreground. 'Fashion In The Middle Ages' At The Getty Center, Los Angeles
- Many, like Chen, were tonsured, making official an affiliation that, prior to the war, may have been only an intellectual inclination or a mark of status.
- The young kneeling, tonsured figure on the right appears to be a high-ranking ecclesiastic - a canon or dean - whose biretta rests at Christ's bound feet.
- A hundred and fifty tonsured apostles of incivism here fell in one day beneath the two-handed sword of freedom. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
- A Benedictine like these his brothers, tonsured and habited, he stood erect in the dignity of his office and the humility and simplicity of his nature, as fragile as a child and as durable as a tree. His Disposition
- They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite.
- Devotees get their head tonsured and offer the hair to the Lord as fulfilment of a vow at Tirumala.
- The mobs in Balliguda caught hold of two boys of the Catholic hostel and tonsured their heads. Oh, Fine. Just Fine.