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.
• 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
• And there was the vision of Mavis Staples taking all her congregants to church in Union Park on opening night.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
• Its infrastructure: a smattering of vacant houses and empty outbuildings; a shuttered post office, a church with no congregants and a school with no students.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
• The second Torah given to the synagogue was donated by congregant, Dorothy Rosenfeld.
  — Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2019
• Peter and Paul class of 1974 and a current congregant of Holy Trinity Parish.
  — Allison Kiehl, The Enquirer, 2 Aug. 2024
• The task was complicated by the religious holiday; the congregants, and a lot of the other passengers on the boy’s flight from Israel, weren’t answering their phones.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Aaron Seruya, a congregant from Gibraltar, is often one of them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• It’s much rarer for a pulpit rabbi to have congregants die in their arms.
  — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• As written, the play ends with Purlie welcoming congregants to his new church.
  — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 12 June 2024
• Berkovits helped bring generations of boys and girls to their bar and bat mitzvahs and made music that stirred the souls of many a congregant.
  — Shelley A. Sackett, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024