How to Use Pentecostal in a Sentence

Pentecostal

1 of 2 adjective

• Monk had spent years as a boy playing at Pentecostal revivals, where people spoke in tongues and collapsed onstage.
  — David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2025
• His mother's side was Baptist, his father's side was Pentecostal.
  — Rosemary Westwood, NPR, 21 Dec. 2025
• Raised in the Pentecostal church, his early years were filled with both the love of community and the sting of rejection.
  — Essence, 11 Oct. 2024
• What does papal authority mean in a country where faith was shaped not by marble cathedrals but by praise breaks and Pentecostal fire?
  — Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025
• He was first introduced to gospel music in Pentecostal churches and, as a teenager, he was kicked out of the house by his father for being gay.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 8 May 2023
• The community here revolves around the small neo-Pentecostal church Iracema helped build.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021
• Barbara and Nancy are grateful to their Pentecostal tenants for caring for the building.
  — Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
• Bowen grew up in a Pentecostal household and is currently married to a Pentecostal pastor.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
• My grandmother took us to these little Pentecostal churches, where the musical and moral legacy had a profound influence on my life.
  — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Deanna is a pastor and a director of women’s ministries at a Pentecostal church in Florida.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• The group is run by the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.
  — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
• Some of the preachers, like Oral Roberts, were Pentecostal preachers who found their way on television to bring the movement out of tents and into the mainstream world.
  — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 12 June 2025
• Exorcism has become more mainstream in Catholic culture as well as evangelical and Pentecostal culture.
  — Joseph P. Laycock, The Conversation, 24 May 2022
• His passion for drumming first developed while attending Pentecostal church services with his parents, at first being awed by the in-house drummer and then becoming a part of the church band.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• First, Protestant and Pentecostal groups have experienced dramatic growth.
  — Matthew Blanton, The Conversation, 5 Dec. 2025
• Jimmy Swaggart, the famed Pentecostal televangelist and preacher, has died.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 1 July 2025
• Next morning at the Citadel Church, a large Pentecostal church in Lagos, when the blue plastic offering buckets went round, congregants mimed putting cash in them.
  — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• While she was alarmed by shiny black leggings, slingback boots, and a jean jacket, I was equally stunned by her Pentecostal version of nurses’ scrubs; a powder blue, boxy dress with a matching jacket and headwrap.
  — Essence, 24 July 2025
• A lot of it is wrapped in with growing up in more religious backgrounds and the Evangelical Christian and Pentecostal Christian background and how that affects my grief.
  — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 1 May 2025
• Revered as both a musical scholar and a spiritual guide, his compositions blended classical structure, traditional gospel, and Pentecostal praise in a way few had ever achieved.
  — Sharon Lawson, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
• The woman has sincerely held Pentecostal Christian beliefs and practices the religion of Free Holiness, the complaint notes.
  — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
• One historian recorded that these raucous celebrations resembled religious revivals, much like the ones Chavez had noted in Pentecostal church services.
  — Lloyd Daniel Barba, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
• The pastor was comfortable spreading his Pentecostal message at a typewriter, behind a radio microphone and eventually in front of a TV camera.
  — David K. Li, NBC news, 1 July 2025
• As a Pentecostal movement, the denomination teaches that God speaks through modern spiritual leaders to call out hypocrisy and injustice, much like the prophets of the Old Testament.
  — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
• On the eastern edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant — a Brooklyn neighborhood synonymous with hip-hop excellence — a tiny wellness center is tucked between a Pentecostal church and a real estate office.
  — Ben Barzilai Christopher Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• His Anglo American Pentecostal parents devoted their lives to helping evangelical churches in Mexico.
  — Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• In 1996, Jakes established the Potter's House, a non-denominational Pentecostal megachurch.
  — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 28 Apr. 2025
• The whole spectacle encapsulates a religious fervor across Zimbabwe in which mostly Pentecostal religious leaders are drawing large audiences who are receptive to prosperity gospel ideas.
  — Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Nov. 2025
• At the same time, parallel streams – especially within charismatic and Pentecostal circles – advanced similar claims about Christian authority over society using different theological language.
  — Art Jipson, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2026

Pentecostal

2 of 2 noun

• Voodoo blend of louche funk, plush neo-soul, and pastoral fervor — learned his moves in the Virginia Pentecostal church.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 21 June 2022
• As the son of a Pentecostal minister, Archer began playing the piano by ear at the age of three.
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 14 Oct. 2025
• He was raised Roman Catholic but was shaped by Pentecostal worship with his grandmother.
  — Stephanie Giang-Paunon , Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
• Her parents, both Pentecostal pastors, always told her to follow crosses.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• First Pentecostal Church has mailed out thousands of invitations to friends and neighbors.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2023
• Reginald served on and off as a preacher at Church of God in Christ, the Pentecostal community.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• This poem reflects upon her Pentecostal upbringing and estranged family members, and how that relates to finding her own way of life.
  — Corey Schmidt, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• The network is a coalition of 230 Pentecostal Assemblies of God churches across the state.
  — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 22 Oct. 2025
• His predecessor was a Pentecostal Christian and former gospel singer who had slashed funding for Carnival.
  — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
• In the 1980s, he was ordained as a Pentecostal minister, and went on to lead parallel careers in acting and preaching.
  — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 31 Jan. 2026
• Colby was raised in Dallas by a Pentecostal Christian family who rejected her identity from the get-go.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
• His mother and father met and wed at a Nazarene college in the ’70s and had come West from Idaho to join a local Pentecostal revival.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026
• Mary, the pastor of Faith Temple Pentecostal Church, had initially drawn criticism from her fellow castmates, who claimed that her church is a cult.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
• Warnock, the 11th of 12 children, was born in Savannah, raised in public housing by his parents, both Pentecostal pastors.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2020
• The country has long been a Catholic stronghold, but evangelicals have made tremendous inroads in recent decades, particularly Pentecostals.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023
• Her speech in Malawi was attended by the country’s president, a former leader of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God movement.
  — Time, 3 July 2023
• Her speech in Malawi was attended by the country's president, a former leader of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God movement.
  — Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
• D’Angelo was raised in a deeply religious Pentecostal family and got his musical start in the church, becoming a virtuoso at several instruments.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
• Growing up Pentecostal, where extreme modesty (no jewelry, limited skin showing, nothing tight) is de rigueur, provided some limitations.
  — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
• The senior bishop and other leaders of the House of God church, which is a part of the Pentecostal denomination, were gathered at the complex for a three-day leadership summit.
  — Lauren Costantino september 20, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
• Bishop Tomlinson claimed millions of congregants — including all Pentecostals.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
• But the momentum – in terms of church attendance and energy – is going in the other direction, toward the burgeoning ranks of Pentecostal and other evangelical congregations.
  — Fox News, 5 Jan. 2022
• Cosby took over as first lady of the Faith Temple Pentecostal Church in 1998 after marrying her step-grandfather following the death of her grandmother.
  — Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
• The doc asserts that Cosby, alongside her step-grandfather turned husband, financially and spiritually exploit the members of their Faith Temple Pentecostal church.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2026
• People were converting to more expressive forms of evangelical Christianity — sometimes called charismatic or Pentecostal — which often entailed speaking in tongues and faith healing and emphasized a daily struggle between good and evil.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• Charismatic kingdom theology, which emerged in Pentecostal and charismatic circles, teaches that believers – empowered by the Holy Spirit – should shape politics, culture and society before Christ’s return.
  — Art Jipson, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2026
• In that essay, Washington wrote that his first visit to the Pentecostal West Angeles Church in Los Angeles — at the suggestion of actor and director Robert Townsend in the 1980s — made a major impact on his life.
  — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025