churchlike

Example Sentences

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I remember their home and the churchlike windows facing their lush backyard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

Her ‘60s-meets-2020 “Sleigh Ride” is like hearing a new song and her “Silent Night” is churchlike, respectfully glorious.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2020

The churchlike space is bedecked with stained-glass windows, gold moulding, and oil paintings of men in wigs.

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2019

In the churchlike suit-and-tie hush of Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, you could hear the puck skidding across the ice.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2013

She had pull with the police department, so the men in their flashy suits and fleshy scars sat with churchlike decorum and waited to ask favors from her.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou