pew
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Like nearly everyone I grew up around in this corner of Pennsylvania, Sundays in our house were a congregation in green, and I was the lone holdout in the pew, quietly pulling for New England.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Sitting in the pew, on its own, does nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
Either way, Ms. Mun has us on the edge of our pew.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
“By staying put in that pew, a side is taken,” Jud insists to the parishioners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
The song finished and I returned to our pew.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Having admitted how nervous he was in the pews of the church, he came into his own for the task, along with singer and ex-army captain James Blunt.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Along with the technicolor mural, Caland’s singular sensibility persists in scattered drawings, a bouquet of her preferred 30-inch paintbrushes and a pair of stiff-backed pews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Endorf credits more than loneliness for filling pews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
By streaming standards, that’s enough to keep anyone planted in their living room’s pews.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
Before long, the congregation had grown so large that he moved elsewhere and refurnished the house with rows of wooden pews and a tiled fountain in the place once occupied by the family’s television set.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
