How to Use chapel in a Sentence

chapel

noun
  • Church services will be held in the chapel this week.
  • The chapel lay behind a heavy door.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The meetings take place in the chapel.
    — Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Even a chapel was available to guests.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The rich kid and the stripper get hitched in a chapel off the strip.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Not the older bag of bones sitting in the back of the chapel.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
  • This is what the chapel at the upstate house is designed for.
    — Scott Frances, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The work is displayed in churches, at homes or in chapels.
    — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • On this Sunday there were five of us in the seats of the chapel.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Seen from the train window, the chapel seemed to float above the river.
    — David Means, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The chapel was so old that creaks shuttered across the floor like lightning.
    — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The chapel’s drive-through service window kept the place afloat.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
  • Walsh, the woman who lives near the chapel, said she was shaken.
    — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The chapel is a half-mile from the mansion where the fundraiser took place.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 15 May 2024
  • Guests will be able to exchange vows at a mock chapel at the back of the ballroom.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • At one point, some inmates were moved to the chapel to keep them away from others.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 9 June 2020
  • Sweet, swift, swank, swell, fast as hell, hushed as a chapel, cool as marble, minty fresh.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • In their rehearsal, the boys’ voices soared and echoed off the chapel’s walls.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The actress paired the dress with a chapel-length veil and silver peep-toe shoes.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 27 July 2021
  • The shooting scene, which took place in a chapel, will no longer feature in the film.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Guests can rent the house, feed goats and alpacas, and get married in the on-site chapel.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The tornado tore the roof off the chapel and smashed the bell tower.
    — CBS News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The service was to be held in a small chapel with an overflow tent nearby.
    — Sigrid MacRae, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Some people strained for a view of the chapel, for a sight of the family.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 6 July 2025
  • What if [Ross and Rachel] come out of the wedding-chapel booth?
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2021
  • They are met with silence and suspicion and led from the chapel to a back room.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
  • In the end, the auctioneer's sales pitch on the chapel organ paid off.
    — Freep.com, 12 Feb. 2021
  • There are views overlooking the chapel area below from the third floor.
    — Brendel Clark, Freep.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The colors changed to match the sun coming through the chapel’s skylight.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • In the four months since the grand opening, the chapel still sits mostly quiet.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 Feb. 2022

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