meetinghouse

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Recent Examples of meetinghouse Lord John discovered that Jane was being held in a nearby meetinghouse. Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025 Lord John discovered that Jane was being held in a nearby meetinghouse. Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025 Pilgrim Church had met in many different locations since 1834, and in 1848 the members voted to build a meetinghouse where Parker had been buried, at the present location of Pilgrim Church, 2.5 miles southeast of Elkhart. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Jan. 2024 Although the city has lost other historic buildings in recent years, according to Building Salt Lake, the meetinghouse was not supposed to be one of them. Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for meetinghouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meetinghouse
Noun
  • Two other roommates survived, including one who described to police seeing a man in black clothes walk past her in the house.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 1 July 2025
  • Anderson paid homage to the house’s storied legacy while gently pushing it forward.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Today, more than 30 venues across Avignon and the surrounding region—ranging from chapels and cloisters to gardens, quarries, and gymnasiums—host over 400 events, including performances, debates, readings, screenings, and public talks.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • The facility includes a chapel and reception space and offers cremation services.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • The importance of shrines and temples to the cultural life of Tokyo can’t be overstated.
    Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2025
  • On Friday afternoon, the site had been transformed into a temporary shrine.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • Many great cathedrals of Europe still inspire wonder hundreds of years after their completion.
    Esade Business & Law School, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • While many major programs have spent hundreds of millions on NFL-style cathedrals, UCF opened The Acrisure Bounce House in 2007 for roughly $55 million — a bargain at the time and an incredible steal by today’s standards.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • After her first two England camps in charge in September 2021, Wiegman — in the absence of former England captain Steph Houghton — handed Williamson the armband.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 5 July 2025
  • The camp did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Talent - the big challenge Ensuring a safe, flawless passenger experience and delivering on the team’s strategic mission requires dedicated, experienced employees.
    Judith Magyar, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Despite the backlash, the GHF is encouraging other organizations — including its critics — to join its mission to bring aid to the people of Gaza while ensuring Hamas does not get its hands on it.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Down the hall were dressing rooms, refurbished with showers, gender-neutral bathrooms, and air-conditioning.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • The double front doors lead to a large entry hall, with stairs to the second floor and a 16-foot high coffered ceiling framed by egg and dart crown molding.
    James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • The caverns were later incorporated into a 13th-century Benedictine abbey, destroyed during the French Revolution but still visible in the architecture of the lower levels.
    Rachel King, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • The nuns of the abbey, for instance, were drawn from the richest and most powerful families in the city.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 29 May 2025

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