pulpit
Example Sentences
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“We are united with everybody in our country praying for peace, and specifically praying for immigrants in our country,” Gomez said during an address from the pulpit Wednesday afternoon.
From Los Angeles Times
“The truth is that when you are police chief you have a bully pulpit, and what you say or fail to say is important.”
From Los Angeles Times
The Health Secretary has also used his bully pulpit to attack products he views as toxins, including pesticides and fluoride in water.
Suddenly the lines about needing a hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit came so much more alive from the endless horizon atop a watchtower.
From Los Angeles Times
Roosevelt’s challenge to Wall Street, he writes, “was largely a bully pulpit affair, with rhetoric exceeding action.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
