How to Use congregant in a Sentence

congregant

noun

• The church depends on the financial support of its congregants.
• A small number of congregants had assembled for Midnight Mass.
• The pastors who speak at those have nearly half an hour each to declaim, and the speakers bring many of their own congregants to the host church with them.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Hoover keeps track generally by word of mouth from various congregants.
  — Kyung Lah and Alberto Moya, CNN, 14 Mar. 2018
• They were backed up by hundreds of soldiers as riots erupted among congregants who rallied to defend their leader.
  — Aurora Almendral, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2024
• Beth Hebrew's most famous congregant was a young Steven Spielberg.
  — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 23 Mar. 2018
• This month, its leader, Sandor Nemeth, told his congregants to vote for Mr. Orban.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• To his congregants, Savage had repented of the incident.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 21 Mar. 2018
• The stories conjure an image of a family that would have been nearly unrecognizable to their fellow congregants in Phoenix.
  — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 12 Apr. 2018
• The work is framed by the rituals of the Roman Catholic Mass, where a celebrant sees his young congregants drifting away and so begins to question his own beliefs.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Hybels has been dogged in recent years by a series of investigations into claims of inappropriate behavior with female staffers and congregants.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2018
• Dozens of congregants were within the house at the time.
  — Laura Barcella, PEOPLE.com, 30 Dec. 2019
• Of the 20 or so congregants at the small church, about half were children.
  — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
• There were more than 200 congregants in the mosque at the time of the stabbing, Hamdan said.
  — Samantha Beech, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
• Please stay away from the area and keep the congregants and law enforcement in your prayers.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 28 Oct. 2018
• Chen, 72, has been a congregant since the church's founding 28 years ago.
  — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 19 May 2022
• The name change and merger, congregants learned, wasn’t all.
  — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
• Among the congregants at St. Sophia’s: a few evacuees from Ukraine.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2023
• Chabad of Poway congregant Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, was killed.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2021
• The church guitarist, a deacon and a congregant of 38 years are among those killed by the disease.
  — al, 10 May 2020
• In one video, a congregant forcibly removes him from a church.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• On the last day of Passover 2019 at a San Diego-area synagogue, a shooter took the life of a congregant.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2022
• Watch a video of congregants speaking out ahead of the trial.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
• In the meantime, Kyle is searching for a church to attend as a congregant.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
• In April two Catholic priests were killed in Benue state, along with 17 congregants.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• David Resnick, 61, has been a congregant at Beth-El Zedeck his entire life.
  — Jordan Erb, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Sep. 2020
• The church had been open through the night for congregants to pray following the announcement of the charges against Garcia.
  — Ruben Vives, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• Heber spread word among his congregants that the Morans were not to be trusted, two people said Heber told them.
  — Katherine Khashimova Long, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2019
• Whitmer told the congregants at Citadel of Praise Church on Detroit’s west side.
  — Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2020
• What makes this religion so unique is that the ministers, known as workers, live with the congregants, moving from one member home to another, sometimes living out of a single suitcase.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024