How to Use choir loft in a Sentence

choir loft

noun
  • On Sunday after the service — and after the coffee and danish crowd had thinned in the church basement — Roy took me up to the choir loft.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Their small coffins were placed side by side in the crossing under the choir loft in the Princeton University Chapel.
    John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Gordon Granley walks into church with a mask, but then sits in the choir loft, alone, and often removes it.
    Ian Lovett, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
  • There’s just one bedroom — in the former choir loft — but its bathroom includes a walk-in shower and claw foot copper tub.
    Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Inside, the church organ and choir loft were heavily damaged, with a hole blown in the floor of the loft big enough to provide a view of the church below, according to the next day’s Picayune.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Inside the church, Joe Moore the reporter was getting his camera ready to live stream at the same time that Joe Moore the choir member was getting ready to sing and play organ from the choir loft.
    John Carlisle, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Redfyre’s pleasure comes to an abrupt end, however, when someone shoves the gifted trumpeter Juno Proudfoot down the steps of the choir loft.
    Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • The former choir loft overlooking the day area was converted into a small recreation room.
    oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2019
  • In the choir loft, Kwasniewski, Bauer and others were chanting Gregorian melodies, projecting a warbly sound that echoed as if the church were a stone cave.
    Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Citing the discovery of a piece of copperized wire, part of a glass tube that smelled of fuel and metal particles embedded in the walls that didn’t match other metal in the choir loft, police were sure the explosion was deliberate.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2020

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