pew
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In her student days, for stress relief, Ms. Chan would lie on a pew and gaze upon this “airy canopy of stone.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Either way, Ms. Mun has us on the edge of our pew.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
“We’re not going to let our house burning down keep us from coming here,” Kevin Anderson said from the front pew at a recent Bible study.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Iskef's family, sitting in a pew near the front, were consumed by grief.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025
Peter was already playing, invisible in the tall organ loft, when we squeezed into the crowded pew.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Among the rank-and-file, the fight now reverberates in church pews and parking lots, and in America’s Catholic neighborhoods from Pittsburgh to Boston to Miami.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The Pot Noodles on the pews were a surprise the funeral director thought up.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
By streaming standards, that’s enough to keep anyone planted in their living room’s pews.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
His waywardness finally caught up with him, as he was in the church pews bunker left the fairway on the way to his first bogey of the day.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
He let me down so that he could push one of the pews against the wall.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
