How do you use Pews in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Pews meaning
plural of pew
Using Pews
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of pew
- In the example corpus, pews often appears in combinations such as: the pews, pews and, pews of.
Context around Pews
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pews
- In this selection, "pews" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wooden, pew, front, stories, amen and filled stand out and add context to how "pews" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include actual baroque pews and banquettes and citizens into pews and made. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pews" sits close to words such as abingdon, aborigines and abrahams, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pews
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It no longer fills the pews and the plate. (9 words)
If the faithful are back in the theater pews, amen. (10 words)
The first thing they did was sell the pews and paint the interior white. (14 words)
And then, to add to the joy of the drive, the front pews are well suited to keeping one’s body in check, while the iMT rev-matching on downshifts is pretty sweet as well, giving focus to the loud purr from the exhausts. (44 words)
In Paris, officials cleared the pews of Chapelle Sainte-Jeanne-d’Arc to install gaming stations underneath the church’s stained glass; a statue of the expansion’s villain, Messmer the Impaler, towered over the altar. (36 words)
The ceremony began with a rendition of Linkin Park's Shadow of the Day, as mourners wiping away tears sat in pews behind Dr Gordon's dark blue coffin, adorned with yellow and green flowers. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The burps, fart jokes, and smack talk that start the second three or more gather, and their universal love of pew pews pews.
And then, to add to the joy of the drive, the front pews are well suited to keeping one’s body in check, while the iMT rev-matching on downshifts is pretty sweet as well, giving focus to the loud purr from the exhausts.
Her essays and interviews have been featured in Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church" and other places.
If the faithful are back in the theater pews, amen.
It comes as Francis attempts to galvanise young Catholics at a time when secularism and priest paedophilia scandals cause some to abandon pews in Europe.
It no longer fills the pews and the plate.
It’s running right through the pews of individual churches, separating people who had long worshipped together.
The first thing they did was sell the pews and paint the interior white.
Then the lit candle was carried by a cleric up the basilica's center aisle, past darkened pews filled with some 8,000 faithful.
A Great Awakening and charitable church-planting drive drew millions of citizens into pews and made daily outreach to the lost, the straitened, and the enslaved.
Fr. Paul saw a number of veteran and retired city officers he knows enter the pews at the funeral.
In Paris, officials cleared the pews of Chapelle Sainte-Jeanne-d’Arc to install gaming stations underneath the church’s stained glass; a statue of the expansion’s villain, Messmer the Impaler, towered over the altar.
Milton Villavicencio Duran, who works to restore wooden pews and statues in churches damaged by the fires, told Reuters that at times the smog was so thick the landscape was entirely obscured.
More than 100 community members and environmental advocates filled the pews of Mountain View Baptist Church to hear proposed cleanup plans for coal tar pollution at the Bramlett site.
Neil drops the rings, leading to a chaotic scramble under the pews to retrieve them.
One would be hard-pressed to identify evangelical voices who’ve done more to bring a divisive focus on politics into the pews — all under the pretense of de-escalation and bipartisanship.
Speaking to Daily Star, Melissa candidly opened up about her ordeal after being banished from the house of God – and how she thinks there's 'evil' lurking amongst the wooden pews.
The ceremony began with a rendition of Linkin Park's Shadow of the Day, as mourners wiping away tears sat in pews behind Dr Gordon's dark blue coffin, adorned with yellow and green flowers.
The punters are just as much a part of the furniture as the wooden pews and real ale pumps.
Upon crossing the cobblestone entry at Quixote, guests are greeted with dark wood paneling, hanging lanterns, flickering candelabras, stunning stained-glass windows and actual baroque pews and banquettes in the dining room.
Common combinations with pews
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the pews 39×
- pews and 9×
- pews of 6×
- pews to 5×
- pews in 4×
- wooden pews 4×
- pews are 3×
- empty pews 3×
- and pews 3×
- pews were 3×