pulpit

Example Sentences

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Andrew Jay Schwartzman, a public interest communications attorney, said Carr is using his bully pulpit at the FCC to intimidate “a timorous broadcasting industry.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

“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 • Jan. 31, 2026

Roosevelt’s challenge to Wall Street, he writes, “was largely a bully pulpit affair, with rhetoric exceeding action.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

The Prince of Wales gave a Bible reading from the pulpit.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

“I was preached upon from every pulpit; I was urged to do something and do it now, and do it quick and do it in a way that would bring results.”

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler