congregant

Example Sentences

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“Compassion,” the preacher proclaimed, is “mercy in action,” adding: “I can also show you one small rhetorical tweak that guarantees even your densest congregant won’t miss the point.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

"It was just so unexpected," said the congregant, Paul Kirby.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

While listening to a moving Mother’s Day church sermon in the early 1900s, congregant Sonora Smart Dodd thought of her father’s own commitment to family.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2024

During McCarthy’s grueling quest for the speaker’s gavel in January, Bakersfield resident Kathy Scrivner was on her knees in front of the television, praying that her fellow congregant at Valley Baptist Church would be victorious.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

How these followed from "the congregant nature of the loadstone can be seen when the effusion of forms has been considered."

From The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors by King, W. James