How to Use go to church in a Sentence

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  • The older woman now takes a long detour to go to church, far from the crows and their chicks.
    New York Times, 4 June 2021
  • Then we were woken up early in the morning to go to church.
    Time, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Families would go to church in the morning and then celebrate for the rest of the day.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Both of them are made to go to church, both worship at the altar of the movies, and both draw perilously near to the cute.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Others can't afford dentures or a new suit to go to church.
    The Indianapolis Star, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Others can't even afford dentures or a new suit to go to church.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
  • People go to church, or the beach, or throw parties to celebrate.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Shrove is rooted in the word shrive, which means to absolve, and people often go to church to confess their sins.
    Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In Ouagadougou, Honorine Ouedraogo woke up early on the morning of the coup to go to church.
    Borso Tall, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
  • We should never have been allowed to go to church together.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
  • But last week, the archbishop said in a radio interview that parishioners should still go to church on Christmas and wear a mask.
    Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
  • After that, according to Dale, Lake continued to go to church, sometimes twice a day.
    Ruby Cramer, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Might part of the issue be that people now go to church, seek information about knitting, form groups and seek pornography all from the same place?
    WSJ, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Senator Hughes said that clause was intended to allow poll workers to go to church.
    Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 29 May 2021
  • Only one of Ed’s three biological children go to church, none of his siblings do, and no one other than his wife goes to a traditional Latin Mass like him.
    Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
  • For instance, overall a majority of Catholics support keeping Roe in place, but those who go to church more often - at least a few times a month - are more inclined to want that ruling overturned.
    Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • But nowadays something like 40 percent of people who self-identify as evangelicals don’t go to church.
    David Marchesephoto Illustation By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • At one of the last family get-togethers, Jack and another family member were having a discussion in front of my husband, saying that most Democrats don't go to church and don't have morals.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2021
  • At one of the last family get-togethers, Jack and another family member were having a discussion in front of my husband, saying that most Democrats don’t go to church and don’t have morals.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Anybody that has talked to Francona knows his affinity for those Steelers teams of the past, and how his mother would entice him to go to church on Sundays by serving delicious appetizers during the games.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Fewer people are members of civic clubs like Rotary and Kiwanis, less people go to church, and many people prefer streaming movies at home and having food delivered to an old-fashioned night out of dinner and a movie.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • Monday, Minnesotans can hold indoor gatherings of up to 15 people, go to church or the salon without occupancy limits (while remaining socially distant), and fill restaurants and bars up to 75% of normal capacity.
    Joe Carlson, Star Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021

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