How to Use pew in a Sentence

pew

noun

• The person sat in the last pew on the left side of the church.
  — William Mansell and, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2020
• Bryan and Karla sat in the fifth pew from the front, on the left.
  — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
• Hank’s first and second wives watched from the front pew.
  — al, 1 Jan. 2023
• The man sitting next to me in one of the back pews laughed – as did many of the others in the room.
  — Oliver Morton, WIRED, 1 July 2001
• 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
• Gov. Bruce Rauner was among the hundreds who filled the church's worn wooden pews.
  — James Steinbauer, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2017
• 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
• Among the works is one of four little girls sitting on a church pew, dressed up.
  — Elizabeth Kramer, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2017
• 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
• One of the few things saved from the fire was the building itself, the pews of the church and the Bible that sat in the middle of the room, untouched by the morning's flames.
  — Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 31 July 2024
• Tricky to wear, tricky to look at, and extremely tricky for the poor soul sitting in the pew behind.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 May 2018
• Many of the students stayed in the homes of Black families or slept in pews at Black churches.
  — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
• Service attendees admired the quilts, throws, and shawls that graced the backs of pews.
  — Jan Lugenbuhl, NOLA.com, 9 May 2017
• 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
• But demographic trends are setting up a collision course with young people in the pews.
  — Ryan Struyk, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
• Partisanship made its way into the pews, and when Deese invited a member of the Muslim faith to address the congregation about Islamophobia, people walked out.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024