pews in English
The congregation replaced stationary pews with ‘Danish modern’ wooden chairs that could be positioned in any arrangement.
Use "pews" in a sentence
1. Many large churches, however, provide hymn books in the pews.
2. The shuffling and rustling of bodies settling again into the pews.
3. In one of the pews a woman was fingering her beads.
4. 25 About twelve worshippers dotted the empty, evenly-spaced pews, like lonely beads on a child's abacus.
5. * The original pews were made of pine and painted to look like oak.
6. All the pews have been removed from inside but the font and the altar rail remain.
7. The fragrance captures the essence of Avignon, with its old, smoky churches and their well-worn pews
8. There were neither pews nor seats: everyone knelt or sat on simple jute mats that covered the floor.
9. 12 There is a row of pews on either side of the chapel to seat two in each pew.
10. The pews, the pulpit and the altar are of a piece with the simple elegance of the church itself.
11. 6 There was an unappealing gloom inside and he could just make out the empty pews enclosed by wood panelling.
12. To satisfy the demands of wealthier parishioners for more comfort during the often lengthy sermons, pews with cushions began to proliferate.
13. Three interesting features inside are the box pews, the semi-circular altar rail, and the stone lectern dating from Norman times.
14. Only a small minority in America's well-groomed Episcopal churches or the Church of England's underpopulated pews finds clerical homosexuality non-negotiably bad nowadays.
15. And perhaps understandably, given the number of empty pews across the nation's churches each Sunday, far fewer weddings include a religious ceremony nowadays.
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17. He and his cinematographer, Sven Nykvist, would sit in the hard pews from 11 in the morning till two in the afternoon, watching the light change.
18. Edward Pentin found instead two early Concelebrated Eucharists with one and three concelebrants, and the main Mass at 8:30 with eight people in the pews
19. During the Alleluiahs! even got a couple of the old foggies to move their feet to the beat and a few in the pews to let themselves clap
20. Since its restoration by the Cawdor family in 1855, its highbacked old pews have disappeared and its Norman windows have been replaced by those of later Gothic design.
21. Civilize It “is a call for Catholics to honor the human dignity of each person they encounter, whether it is online, at the dinner table, or in the pews next to them,” he said
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23. Packed into a room just like this, but with creaky wooden pews draped in worn-down red fabric, with an organ to my left and a choir at my back and a baptism pool built into the wall behind them.
24. Examples of Chorister in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web The coronavirus pandemic means that this Easter Sunday there will be no congregants in the pews, no Choristers to conduct, no sharp retorts from the brass to herald the New Testament’s recounting of the resurrection of Christ.
25. Etched in the beautiful stained glass windows which had been brought from Europe was the name of their donor; carved into the majestic pulpit made from the cedars of Lebanon were the initials of a wealthy benefactor; the most desirable pews were named after prominent families who had donated the most to the chapel building fund.