pew
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Every inch of pew space was filled, mostly with young adults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
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
“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
She’s in the front pew, wearing a pale yellow dress and matching hat.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
By streaming standards, that’s enough to keep anyone planted in their living room’s pews.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
Some of the hymns and liturgy were the same as those sung by Anglicans around the world, but there were also differences, like the upbeat worship music that had the congregation dancing in the pews.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 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
They voted the money to repair the supports under the front three pews.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
