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Examples of storefront church in a Sentence
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In its more prosperous years, the Philadelphia chapter operated out of a mansion in one of the city’s ritziest suburbs; today, its financial circumstances can be surmised from the size of its storefront church on Ridge Avenue.
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Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Catholic house of worship on West 14th Street, is a grandly inventive architectural oddity and the mother of all Hispanic storefront churches in New York City.
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John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 2 June 2023
In 1992, Bishop toiled over a six-week lesson that addressed the traumatic struggles of the women in his small storefront church.
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C. Syl'violet Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Jan. 2023
Rojas, Zárraga and a third Venezuelan national sat inside a storefront church in the District’s Park View neighborhood, with no place to sleep that night.
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Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
Instead, the family takes refuge inside a small storefront church, the Faith, Life and Hope Mission, on 63rd Street in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
The historic building has housed a storefront church, a drama school, and for four decades served as headquarters for the tile layers union, Local 18.
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Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
One man stood outside a storefront church on a recent morning and stuck a needle in his arm.
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BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2021
The location of the shooting is a storefront in a line of one-story storefronts on 79th Street that includes businesses including a day care center, an electronics shop, a storefront church and a salon.
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Liam Ford, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1937, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of storefront church was
in 1937
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“Storefront church.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/storefront%20church. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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