1
: a compartment in the auditorium of a church providing seats for several persons
2
: one of the benches with backs and sometimes doors fixed in rows in a church
Examples of pew in a Sentence
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Felipe Gaytán, a sociologist at La Salle University in Mexico City who has written extensively about religion, says the document reflects a new, proactive stance by church leaders, who have remained influential even as the number of faithful in the pews has fallen off.
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Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
Just after lunch, Baldwin and Hutchins were rehearsing a scene that was meant to be a camera close-up of Baldwin — who was playing a hardened outlaw, Harland Rust — slowly pulling his Colt .45 revolver from his shoulder holster while sitting in a pew in a rustic church.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Its pews will be replaced and two new organs will be installed.
—Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
People, whether in the pulpit or in the pews, have starkly different intuitions about what the conventions are and should be.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Simon’s widow Juanita Simon sat in the first pew, with other members of her family, waiting to receive the flag.
—Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
The former church’s sanctuary, now free of pews, is intended to provide just that.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 17 Jan. 2024
Her voice floating between genres, Del Rey comes off like an isolated queen in the Hall of Mirrors or a lone chorus girl performing for empty church pews.
—Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2023
Witnesses testified during Gutierrez’s trial that the cross-draw maneuver that Baldwin was rehearsing while sitting in a pew in the wooden church — which is when the gun went off — was not in the script.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
Just after lunch, Baldwin and Hutchins were rehearsing a scene that was meant to be a camera close-up of Baldwin — who was playing a hardened outlaw, Harland Rust — slowly pulling his Colt .45 revolver from his shoulder holster while sitting in a pew in a rustic church.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Its pews will be replaced and two new organs will be installed.
—Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
People, whether in the pulpit or in the pews, have starkly different intuitions about what the conventions are and should be.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Simon’s widow Juanita Simon sat in the first pew, with other members of her family, waiting to receive the flag.
—Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
The former church’s sanctuary, now free of pews, is intended to provide just that.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 17 Jan. 2024
Her voice floating between genres, Del Rey comes off like an isolated queen in the Hall of Mirrors or a lone chorus girl performing for empty church pews.
—Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2023
Witnesses testified during Gutierrez’s trial that the cross-draw maneuver that Baldwin was rehearsing while sitting in a pew in the wooden church — which is when the gun went off — was not in the script.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
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: one of the benches with backs and sometimes doors set in rows in a church
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