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.
  • The sheriff's office said that at no point were the congregants inside the church at risk.
    — Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Streck, along with congregants, are part of the Upper Room.
    — Lisa Ling, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The congregants wore head flashlights and held pages of Christmas song lyrics.
    — Silvia Foster-Frau, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Her church offers support programs for refugees, the homeless and gay congregants.
    — Stephen Magagnini and Phillip Reese, sacbee, 23 Dec. 2017
  • After services, buses took congregants straight to early polling places.
    — Colleen Long, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Its employees are some of its most devoted congregants.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The congregants come to suspect that Tyrone is possessed by the devil, but the truth might be a little less straightforward.
    — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • So we are faced with the unenviable decision of committing a third-degree felony for allowing our congregants to protect themselves.
    — Jim Turner, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The trinity: In our weekly mass celebrating brisket, ribs and sausage, The Big Bib is a dutiful congregant, but one that doubts its faith.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2018
  • White-Hammond is determined to get all of her 600 congregants to write down their end-of-life medical wishes and discuss them with their doctors and families.
    — Melissa Bailey, Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Dozens of congregants were within the house at the time.
    — Laura Barcella, PEOPLE.com, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Of the 20 or so congregants at the small church, about half were children.
    — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
  • There were more than 200 congregants in the mosque at the time of the stabbing, Hamdan said.
    — Samantha Beech, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Please stay away from the area and keep the congregants and law enforcement in your prayers.
    — Emily Stewart, Vox, 28 Oct. 2018
  • Then, Garces said, the guard, who was not armed, fled the church, along with some other congregants.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The banner lists the names of more than 200 congregants who served in the U.S. military.
    — Monica Rhor, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • In April two Catholic priests were killed in Benue state, along with 17 congregants.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • David Resnick, 61, has been a congregant at Beth-El Zedeck his entire life.
    — Jordan Erb, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The church had been open through the night for congregants to pray following the announcement of the charges against Garcia.
    — Ruben Vives, latimes.com, 5 June 2019

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