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.
  • As Soto spoke, emojis of hearts, smiles and clapping hands floated from the heads of his congregants as signs of approval.
    Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 19 May 2018
  • One reason is that more Iraqi voters demand to be treated as citizens, not congregants.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2018
  • Most of those businesses' employees are congregants, the AP found.
    Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • The dozens of women who were his congregants and students — and his victims — expected he wouldn’t be released until 2021.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Kelly Ward, who runs a ministry in Springfield, Mo., and is a licensed counselor, took the stage to urge congregants not to hold in their emotions.
    chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2018
  • But controversy fueled interest as churches bought out entire theaters for their congregants.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Colbath reminded the congregants of Karla Holcombe, a victim of the massacre who played a leading role in church activities.
    Silvia Foster-Frau, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The diocese accused Gallagher of alienating Hispanic congregants and adding a bar and piano to his former living room at the church rectory.
    Marc Freeman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 May 2018
  • Media: GeoBeats Hundreds packed the sprawling church, which fits around 1,000 congregants, for the private service.
    Lomi Kriel, Houston Chronicle, 25 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Moreover, the congregants could not have been more welcoming.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2024

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