How to Use pew in a Sentence

pew

noun
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  • The person sat in the last pew on the left side of the church.
    — William Mansell and, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Hank’s first and second wives watched from the front pew.
    — al, 1 Jan. 2023
  • In the chaos that ensued, Baldwin set the gun on a church pew.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Curreri left the stage and went back to his pew to take his seat next to Sproule.
    — Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The voice was forged in church pews and rose from the wreckage of Tulsa’s dark past.
    — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The Bidens had a front pew, with Harris and Emhoff on the other side of the aisle, also in the front.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2021
  • An angry man no one seems to know seethes at the end of the farthest pew.
    — Rima Parikh, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The man always arrived around 6:30 a.m., walked through the front door and took his seat in the back pew, just to the right of the main aisle.
    — Peter Finney Jr. | Editor-In-Chief, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2021
  • In the background of the video, the wounded lay on pews and on the church floor for lack of space in the hospital.
    — Julia Jester, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • One of his favorite pieces is an old two-seater church pew.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024
  • After it was fired, Halls picked up the gun from a pew in the church set and took it to the armorer.
    — Fox News, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Sitting in a pew was Navratilova, who would spend the next 12 hours by Evert’s side.
    — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
  • An old church pew serves as a bench in the shop, and a record player plays music in the corner.
    — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2022
  • When the five of us arrived and filed into the last pew in the church, the number of worshippers was 32.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 23 Dec. 2020
  • About three pews ahead of me was a very old Chinese woman.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2018
  • The project’s next phase is to restore the floor under the pews, which remain sturdy and heavy to lift.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Guests in the pews of the stunning church could feel the love emanating from the couple.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2023
  • When Han Sim wasn't kneeling in a field, she could be found doing so in a pew.
    — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2020
  • The grieving mother starts to shriek and flail in the pew; Cherizier towels off his head.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • View the royal pews, Princess Kai‘iulani’s bench and plantings and King Lunalilo’s tomb.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Video of that would-be shooting showed the moment the man's gun jammed as the deacon dove over a pew and tackled him.
    — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 13 May 2024
  • Harry sat in the third row of the pews reserved for the royal family.
    — Marisa Bellack, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
  • The living room, once the main chapel, has a 50-foot tall ceiling, while the old church pews have been used to build the kitchen cabinetry.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
  • Among the church pews there was Rubin, looking satisfied with this first taste of the event.
    — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 27 June 2024
  • Some staunch republicans will be among those in the pews.
    — Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • My son sat in church the next day with his legs dangling off the pew clutching his small space shuttle toy.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, al.com, 23 July 2019
  • Crawford and White sat on a pew and told the story together.
    — Thomas Lake, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020
  • When Hubert arrived at the church with a friend that day, the back pew was open, Hubert recalled.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 18 July 2022
  • At Sunday services, Cheryl Johnson sits in the back pew.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The congregation, in hats and finery, make room for me on their pews.
    — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024

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