How to Use meetinghouse in a Sentence

meetinghouse

noun
Definition of meetinghousenext
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  • More were due to come down at an east Salt Lake City meetinghouse.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The meetinghouse on the community green tips its hat to the past.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 29 June 2017
  • Did the idea of a meetinghouse come from spending time in Vermont?
    — David Netto, Town & Country, 19 Mar. 2019
  • To those who attended the farewell, the Wells Ward building is more than just a church meetinghouse.
    — Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The meetinghouse is resplendent with quilts draped over the pews, hung from the balcony and under the windows.
    — courant.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The Salt Lake Tribune first reported the eviction of the meetinghouse.
    — Brady McCombs, The Seattle Times, 10 Dec. 2018
  • Those take place in meetinghouses and chapels, which are open to any guest who wants to attend a service on any Sunday.
    — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Only the meetinghouse breaks the welcoming rhythm with a blank wall facing Vine.
    — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • About 12 years ago, the Abington meetinghouse caretaker, Dave Wermeling, found an old sketch of Lay in a box.
    — Kristin E. Holmes, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Census Bureau staff are scheduled to be at the meetinghouse this week to answer questions and help Utahns complete the census.
    — Zoi Walker, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Lidstone worked on the meetinghouse as it was being constructed in 2010.
    — Kathy McCormack, ajc, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The Latter-day Saint temple with an adjoining meetinghouse will find a home somewhere on the site, which has now been mostly leveled.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • Not that every Mormon meetinghouse should look like a cathedral.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Some 44 members have taken refuge in the church’s Kingston meetinghouse, according to a news release, where water and food are available.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The meetinghouse was packed with people who wanted to celebrate her life and also honor her wish that the funeral show forth the love of Jesus.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
  • When the meetinghouse and the old Relief Society Hall next door reopen, which is scheduled for late summer, patrons will notice a lot of changes.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 May 2021
  • Beirut District President Maroun Akiki said all members in the area have been accounted for and a church meetinghouse near the blast site was not damaged.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The church absorbed it into a six-acre property on Doverhill Drive, turning half of it into a meetinghouse with a parking lot.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 May 2021
  • Ms. Latorre, joined by her family, left the meetinghouse.
    — Julie Turkewitz and Todd Heisler Photographs By Todd Heisler, New York Times, 5 June 2017
  • On Saturdays, the basketball hoops at a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in Lehi are pulled back, transforming the space into a dance studio.
    — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Switching back to the traditional venue has helped attract relatively new members such as Tom Skolfield, who felt the church should meet in its meetinghouse.
    — G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Across the street from its worn wooden front doors, the First Church of Roxbury dominates the hilltop, a classic white-clapboard meetinghouse on a site first established by English settlers in 1631.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
  • After a fire heavily damaged a Utah meetinghouse nearly two years ago, the church decided to sell the building in Cottonwood Heights rather than repair it.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Almost conveniently, Howard said, Avon residents had long wanted a new meetinghouse to be built.
    — Michael Walsh, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • For many Latter-day Saints, going to a meetinghouse every Sunday to hear sermons, take the bread-and-water sacrament, sing hymns, and enjoy the camaraderie of fellow believers has been a lifelong habit.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The handbook update took effect in the first week of August, Woodruff said, but the change will be formally communicated to local Church leaders as new meetinghouse safety guidelines in the near future.
    — Chris Boyette, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Five free performances will take place at the meetinghouse adjacent to the Philadelphia Mormon Temple.
    — Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Temples are used for weddings and for other special ceremonies; weekly worship happens not in temples but in meetinghouses, which are always open to guests.
    — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Unlike the temple, anyone may attend meetings or activities at the ward meetinghouse.
    — Glenna Christensen, idahostatesman, 13 Oct. 2017
  • General Handbook could help nip such meetinghouse friction.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 July 2022

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