preach to the converted

Examples of preached

preached

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Similarly, sermons preached during profession ceremonies or funerals of the city's nuns retained their ecstatic, baroque rhetoric.
Their unfortunate brothers listened to them as they preached, smoked and philosophised in the safe confines of the pote.
A number of reviewers made the point that the production lacked political impact because it 'preached to the converted'.
Some had prophesied, a few had preached, and others had even publicly demonstrated in defence of their forms of worship.
The partisans preached resistance at any cost, even if it meant v including heavy civilian casualties.
Converts preached publicly, orally, about private wrongs, calling impotent, beery men to repentance.
As their names implied, mutual benefit societies preached self-help and mutual assistance.
On the other hand, the missionaries preached against the violence and terror that were intrinsic to many paternalistic marriages.
Priests preached a rosy afterlife in paradise, while advocating the benefits they could obtain in this life.
A shorter final section discusses sermons preached early in the fifth century.
In this midst of this determined moderation, the gospel which these reformers preached was that of justification by faith alone.
There was a substantial contrast between the line of communist propaganda, which preached fraternity between peoples, and the reality of relations stamped with paranoia.
They preached the virtue of temperance and the dangers of alcoholism.
Although many times preached, the main problem in a current information-centric world remains to properly put the collected raw data to use.
The moral essence of man, as the stoics preached, is a fiction.
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