How to Use congregant in a Sentence

congregant

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  • The church depends on the financial support of its congregants.
  • A small number of congregants had assembled for Midnight Mass.
  • There were more than 200 congregants in the mosque at the time of the stabbing, Hamdan said.
    — Samantha Beech, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Chen, 72, has been a congregant since the church's founding 28 years ago.
    — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 19 May 2022
  • The name change and merger, congregants learned, wasn’t all.
    — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Among the congregants at St. Sophia’s: a few evacuees from Ukraine.
    — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Chabad of Poway congregant Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, was killed.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The church guitarist, a deacon and a congregant of 38 years are among those killed by the disease.
    — al, 10 May 2020
  • In one video, a congregant forcibly removes him from a church.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • On the last day of Passover 2019 at a San Diego-area synagogue, a shooter took the life of a congregant.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Watch a video of congregants speaking out ahead of the trial.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In the meantime, Kyle is searching for a church to attend as a congregant.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
  • David Resnick, 61, has been a congregant at Beth-El Zedeck his entire life.
    — Jordan Erb, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Cytron-Walker was alone with one congregant at that point.
    — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2022
  • At Maranatha on Sunday, congregants tried to come to terms with the impending farewell.
    — Greg Bluestein, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Children should eat in their classrooms, and congregants should stay 6 feet apart in church.
    — Sarah Dilorenzo, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Lately, his congregants seemed more scared than ever, fearful of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
    — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • Aaron Seruya, a congregant from Gibraltar, is often one of them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The congregants at Rock Church aren’t the first to worship drive-in style; Christianity caught up to car culture a while ago.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2020
  • In Palo Alto, a congregant wanted to let people who live out of their cars stay in his church’s lot.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Just months ago he was scolded by a former congregant for his views on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2021
  • For George Frazao, a congregant who lives walking distance from the church, the clinic arrived like a godsend.
    — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 12 Apr. 2021
  • But Bishop Smith has since refused to give up the building despite the pleas of its former congregants, even going so far as to change the locks.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But before any of the approximately 20 worshipers were harmed, a group of them tackled the man to the ground, a congregant told the Toronto Star.
    — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2022
  • And in the front row at Southern Baptist Church, his most famous congregant stood and did exactly that.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Some leaders said that the very presence of the congregants on Saturday was a statement in itself.
    — Erin Nolan, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • On the first day of Hanukkah, a congregant brought a menorah that his girlfriend, whose family is both Jewish and Catholic, donated to the chapel.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Some of the new members of Lim’s church had been congregants in large, White evangelical churches.
    — John Blake, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • And as congregants flooded to their cars afterward, a few paused to share thoughts on an issue that could soon engulf the historic parish in Catonsville.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Other congregants have spent time on the phone guiding older members through the steps to join a video conference.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2020

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