How to Use pulpit in a Sentence

pulpit

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  • God can be found in the pews of the pulpit or at a ball.
    — Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 29 July 2022
  • Whispers made their way from the pulpit to the back of the line.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 9 June 2020
  • On this one, kill him, take him to his church, dump him in the pulpit. .
    — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Inside the chapel, a large picture of Mr. Floyd hung above the pulpit.
    — Ben Chapman, WSJ, 4 June 2020
  • In the spring, skunk cabbage was coming up, Jack-in-the-pulpit.
    — Thomas Gebremedhin, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
  • They are told from the pulpit to give first, save second and live off the rest of their incomes.
    — Craig Harris, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The gallery is now the congregation and the stand now becomes the pulpit.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Some are preaching about mental health from the pulpit for the first time.
    — Aneri Pattani, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The pulpit was mounted on a hinged section of the wooden floor.
    — James Hales Remembering Rogers, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2023
  • The suspect stood up and began making his way to the pulpit.
    — Rachel Wegner, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Moore later delivered the speech, which won first place in the state, at the chapel pulpit.
    — Sydney Trent, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
  • But even in King’s day, movements couldn’t be reduced to a face on TV or a voice at the pulpit.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2018
  • The pastors who made the Baylor list had plenty of pulpit chops to call on.
    — John Blake, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • The camera panned to Pastor Bruns, standing next to his son at the pulpit.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 5 May 2020
  • And now there will be more words imparted from the pulpit.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • Toni Kennedy read proclamations from the city and the state that were projected on a screen near the pulpit.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The church's pulpit was King's and later became Warnock's.
    — Fox News, 20 Dec. 2021
  • This topic has had a home on Williamson’s podiums, pulpits, and pages for decades.
    — Jenni Avins, Quartz, 30 July 2019
  • After the Mass, the mission was closed again to finish the last bit of restoration work around the altar and pulpit.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Until a year ago when in the wake of Aniah’s death, Elijah felt the Lord’s spirit telling him to go back to the pulpit.
    — Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Her dad left the pulpit, fought the man to the ground, disarmed him and then dragged him to the altar and held him in a half-nelson until the man prayed.
    — John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2018
  • Kanye will take to the pulpit a second time Sunday to perform with his choir at the 7 p.m. service.
    — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The challenges that campaigns pose for faith leaders, most of whom don't endorse from the pulpit, aren't unique to the Trump era.
    — Elana Schor, Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Fittingly, the church’s pulpit, shrines and Stations of the Cross were hand-carved in Germany.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • At the Easter church service, the minister taunts him from the pulpit.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Another coming-soon item is the pulpit from the Nazarene Church.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 16 July 2021
  • Yet the large choir stand behind the pulpit is opened for dozens who arrive later and will not find an open seat.
    — Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Similarly, the fruit of my jack-in-the-pulpit flops to the ground in the fall, the moist flesh disintegrates over the winter and seeds sprout.
    — Cynthia Kling, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Last week, a Pennsylvania man jumped out of his seat at the front of a church and tackled an armed man who walked up to the pulpit and tried to gun down a pastor mid-sermon.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 May 2024
  • The governor should turn his pulpit to these real concerns before more Marylanders get hurt.
    — Kevin A. Sabet, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2024

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