congregant

Example Sentences

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“Compassion,” the preacher proclaimed, is “mercy in action,” adding: “I can also show you one small rhetorical tweak that guarantees even your densest congregant won’t miss the point.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

"It was just so unexpected," said the congregant, Paul Kirby.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

One 99-year-old congregant praised the couple, two female vicars, for breathing new life into the church.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2023

During McCarthy’s grueling quest for the speaker’s gavel in January, Bakersfield resident Kathy Scrivner was on her knees in front of the television, praying that her fellow congregant at Valley Baptist Church would be victorious.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

"You have no right to a voice at all; as the Chancellor has reminded us, you are not even a Yahid, a congregant."

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel