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chapel

[chap-uhl] / ˈtʃæp əl /


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Not long ago, she and Peter Koskey got married, with the unfinished house as their wedding chapel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

As cars pulled up to the chapel, the sound of Father Roy Snipes' barking dogs signalled his arrival.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Leo will stay in a special top-floor suite at the Gemelli, complete with small chapel, kitchen and meeting room for medical staff.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

When I played at Lancaster Catholic High School in Pennsylvania, I saw the “full-blooded” young men still meeting in the school chapel before games.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

There are ten leaking cabins, one main building, a run-down open-air chapel, and very few resources or supplies.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Families had hired bands, set up sprawling arrays of tents and decorated chapels with portraits of their late loved ones inside.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Readers accompany Muratov as he explores museums and chapels, squares and passageways in Italian cities both large and small.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Inmates watch television as they spend the night in one of the overcrowded Central Jail’s chapels on June 7, 1987.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

And yet the chapels, mosaics and gilded wood of Santa Maria Maggiore remain stunning.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025

I’m not to be stopping in chapels to say a prayer.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

So, too, the chapelled choir, with its apse of rounded vaults rising in imposing tiers.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield


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