Use of publican in Sentences. 20 Examples

The examples include publican at the start of sentence, publican at the end of sentence and publican in the middle of sentence

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publican at the end of sentence


  1. With this as background, we can understand some details of the parable of the Pharisee and the publican.
  2. Some people deny themselves the necessaries or comforts of life in order that they may be able to help to fatten a publican .
  3. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
  4. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

publican in the middle of sentence


  1. He was born in 1632 , the son of a publican in Delft.
  2. A publican had to make sure that the gift was not too obvious.
  3. Sitting at his toll booth one day, the publican saw Jesus approaching.
  4. The publican was counted vile and base and reckoned among the worst of men.
  5. He tore it up, and they all remained good friends until the day the publican died.
  6. They took one look at the group of adamant women and ordered the publican to complete the round.
  7. The chief publican longed to look upon the face of Him whose words had brought hope to his heart.
  8. He was regarded as a Re publican by everybody, even though he had always thought of himself as an "Independent".
  9. Clearly the sale of cigarettes to a publican for the purpose of resale across the counter is not a consumer sale.
  10. Many of the smaller gaols formed the rear of public houses with the publican doubling his duties with that of gaoler.
  11. In the year 1800 the chief constable was a publican, and the head gaoler sold rum and brandy opposite the prison gates.
  12. If a pub is closed, that is a commercial judgment by the publican and the brewer depending on the relationship between them.
  13. A fat red-faced man in check breeches and gaiters , who looked like a publican, was stroking her nose and feeding her with sugar.
  14. And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.
  15. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
  16. But the scribes and Pharisees murmured in discontent against Jesus for joining with such as Levi, who had been a publican or hated tax-gatherer on behalf of the Roman government .

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