CHURCH in a Sentence

Learn CHURCH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
345 example sentences for CHURCH, such as:
1. The funeral will be held according to church.
2. She holds a position of authority in the local church.
3. Turn left at the corner and keep on as far as the church.
4. The church has an ornate black and white marbled interior.
5. The west front of the church contains some fine old windows.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CHURCH
church
 n.  the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church
 n.  a service conducted in a house of worship
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Opposite the Varnum gate, where the road fell away toward the Corbury valley, the church reared its slim white steeple and narrow peristyle.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  At the end of the village he paused before the darkened front of the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
3  The hush of midnight lay on the village, and all its waking life was gathered behind the church windows, from which strains of dance-music flowed with the broad bands of yellow light.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
4  As he stood in the darkness outside the church these memories came back with the poignancy of vanished things.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
5  But now, as he stood outside the church, and saw Mattie spinning down the floor with Denis Eady, a throng of disregarded hints and menaces wove their cloud about his brain.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
6  A moment later he heard the jingle of departing sleigh bells and discerned a figure advancing alone toward the empty expanse of snow before the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
7  He walked on to the church corner and entered the shade of the Varnum spruces, where he had stood with her the night before.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
8  They spoke of every-day things, of the prospect of snow, of the next church sociable, of the loves and quarrels of Starkfield.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
9  As they drew near the end of the village the cries of children reached them, and they saw a knot of boys, with sleds behind them, scattering across the open space before the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  Through the stillness they heard the church clock striking five.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  All Starkfield was at supper, and not a figure crossed the open space before the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  But you girls must stand up for me if the church members want to run me out of town for doing it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  Mrs. O'Hara said Scarlett must go to church and say some Rosaries for Carreen's recovery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  Scarlett's conscience smote her at this last, for it had been months since she had been to church.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  Once she would have thought this omission a mortal sin but, somehow, staying away from church did not seem so sinful now as it formerly had.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (135 in 10 pages)
1  The funeral will be held according to church.
2  Archbishop Hunt-hausen also vocalized his beliefs that women and homosexuals should be more active in the church.
3  Floyd Flake went to his church Sunday to announce his resignation from Congress so he could devote more time to his congregation.
4  You must ask permission before taking any photographs inside the church.
5  She holds a position of authority in the local church.
6  Gathered all together in this church, we commemorate those who lost their lives in the great war.
7  They travel to the nearest town on Saturdays for shopping or on Sundays for church.
8  Most of the buildings in the town are modern, but the church is an exception.
9  Instead of defending traditional values, the church frequently seems weak-kneed and irresolute.
10  He expounded traditional Calvinism with its high doctrine of church order.
11  Turn left at the corner and keep on as far as the church.
12  His church became a sanctuary for thousands of people who fled the civil war.
13  The west front of the church contains some fine old windows.
14  The church has an ornate black and white marbled interior.
15  By reorganizing the church hierarchy, the king was able to secure the appointment of men whom he personally favoured.