How to Use in the pulpit in a Sentence

in the pulpit

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• Fame tends to develop faster online than in the pulpit.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
• New Bethel Baptist Church, was a charismatic preacher in the pulpit, on radio and on records.
  — John Edward Hasse, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
• And the dust-up has revealed a dirty little secret of the preaching life: Many pastors borrow from one another in the pulpit, and the norms around the practice are fuzzy at best.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2021
• King’s greatest moments in the pulpit or on the dais had the power to effect in me a movement of the heart, maybe, but not yet a personal turning of memory.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 14 Jan. 2021
• Wheeling’s mayor, Glenn Elliott, suspects the overwhelming community buy-in comes down to the man in the pulpit.
  — Nora Edinger, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• His father sang in the pulpit, and his mother acted out characters from the Bible, especially the women, like Mary and the Samaritan who talks to Jesus at the well.
  — Alex Pappademas, Men's Health, 28 Mar. 2023
• Arthurs stepped back as Wheaton Christian Center’s lead pastor in 2010 but remained an active pastor at the church and was in the pulpit just two days before he was admitted to the hospital, his son said.
  — Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• The local Anglican rector, Derham was better known for his observations of Jupiter and his collections of wasps and grubs than for his talents in the pulpit.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2016
• Thousands of Catholics will see a new priest in the pulpit this weekend as a major reorganization of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati moves forward.
  — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 29 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024