How to Use churchgoer in a Sentence

churchgoer

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  • Limits on in-person religious services, for example, frustrated many churchgoers and church leaders.
    — John Fabian Witt, Foreign Affairs, 31 Dec. 2020
  • As the dust swirled, Cross yelled for churchgoers to get out of the building.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • One of them was the massacre of 26 churchgoers in Texas last month.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • And some churchgoers have even gone so far as to open up their homes to the migrants.
    — NBC News, 18 June 2019
  • The churchgoers, some in shorts and T-shirts, sat on benches once used in a beer hall.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024
  • But that hasn’t done much to calm fears among churchgoers.
    — Tanya A. Christian, Essence, 15 Jan. 2020
  • As churchgoers sang gospel songs during the vigil, loud sobs and cries rang out in the crowd.
    — Christal Hayes, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 June 2017
  • In a nearby chapel, the pageant’s blaring pop songs mixed with the steady rhythm of churchgoers reciting the rosary.
    — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Along a once-rural stretch of road, a small white sign nailed to an old tree greets churchgoers.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
  • Local churchgoers and members of the clergy came to watch the show.
    — Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The churchgoer, who had a permit to carry a weapon, went to his car to retrieve his own gun.
    — Lucinda Shen, Time, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The single churchgoer who was killed was slain while trying to stop the shooting.
    — Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
  • The post was discovered in the wake of the killing of nine black churchgoers by a white supremacist.
    — Richard Winton, latimes.com, 4 June 2019
  • The leading man in the pew recognizes a churchgoer from his studies and braves a walk up the aisle with his co-star to ask him for a chat.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Through the chapel's glass walls, churchgoers can look out onto a grove of elms and evergreens.
    — Carol Kino, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
  • In the Philippines, where churchgoers were told to stay home, Josille Sabsal treated the moment as a test of faith.
    — Joseph Krauss and Elana Schor, Houston Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The horrific shooting that took the lives of nine churchgoers threatened to rip the city of Charleston apart.
    — Southern Living, 24 June 2015
  • The horrific shooting that took the lives of nine churchgoers threatened to rip the city of Charleston apart.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • The displays have drawn both support and outrage from churchgoers and passers-by.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Bains had walked away from the church earlier in his life, but he’s been a regular churchgoer for the past decade.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The churchgoers remained standing through the end of Bloomberg's remarks.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Or the 26 churchgoers massacred in the pews at Sutherland Springs?
    — William Falk, The Week, 13 May 2023
  • The churchgoer killed was a sports medicine doctor and master of martial arts who was slain while trying to stop the shooting.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
  • The boy was a frequent churchgoer and had worked at a senior citizens home for the past three summers.
    — Paige Fry, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • Churchgoers had been impressed with the school's pure honey.
    — Courant Community, 8 June 2017
  • The gunman has been described by churchgoers as tall, slim, wearing a black striped shirt, black pants and a bandana.
    — Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • City workers swooped in with brooms and garbage bags, and police guarded the entrance for churchgoers.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • The next day, a gunman killed two churchgoers in White Settlement, Texas.
    — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Woolen also allegedly shot a churchgoer in the back and shoulder while the man was running from him, Smith added.
    — NBC News, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Not kids, not churchgoers, and not a candidate for President of the United States.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2024

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