How to Use congregant in a Sentence

congregant

noun

• The church depends on the financial support of its congregants.
• A small number of congregants had assembled for Midnight Mass.
• In April two Catholic priests were killed in Benue state, along with 17 congregants.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• That report was part of the AP's ongoing investigation into claims that church leaders had abused congregants for years.
  — Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr, Fox News, 7 June 2018
• What makes this religion so unique is that the ministers, known as workers, live with the congregants, moving from one member home to another, sometimes living out of a single suitcase.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 14 June 2024
• Like their congregants, religious leaders have sharply divided themselves along political lines.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 18 June 2018
• The church’s pastor, Tiffanie Irwin, had escalated her control over church congregants over time as church membership dwindled.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 18 June 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
• 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
• 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
• Heber spread word among his congregants that the Morans were not to be trusted, two people said Heber told them.
  — Katherine Khashimova Long, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2019
• Whitmer told the congregants at Citadel of Praise Church on Detroit’s west side.
  — Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 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
• By Wednesday morning, a dozen congregants filled the first of about 50 pews inside the sprawling church.
  — Ruben Vives, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• Moreover, the congregants could not have been more welcoming.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024