How to Use meetinghouse in a Sentence

meetinghouse

noun
  • More were due to come down at an east Salt Lake City meetinghouse.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Did the idea of a meetinghouse come from spending time in Vermont?
    — David Netto, Town & Country, 19 Mar. 2019
  • The meetinghouse on the community green tips its hat to the past.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 29 June 2017
  • The church went on to say that the meetinghouse will remain closed until the problem has been fixed.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Not that every Mormon meetinghouse should look like a cathedral.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The meetinghouse is resplendent with quilts draped over the pews, hung from the balcony and under the windows.
    — courant.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Only the meetinghouse breaks the welcoming rhythm with a blank wall facing Vine.
    — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Those take place in meetinghouses and chapels, which are open to any guest who wants to attend a service on any Sunday.
    — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2017
  • To those who attended the farewell, the Wells Ward building is more than just a church meetinghouse.
    — Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Lidstone worked on the meetinghouse as it was being constructed in 2010.
    — Kathy McCormack, ajc, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The Salt Lake Tribune first reported the eviction of the meetinghouse.
    — Brady McCombs, The Seattle Times, 10 Dec. 2018
  • Census Bureau staff are scheduled to be at the meetinghouse this week to answer questions and help Utahns complete the census.
    — Zoi Walker, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The Latter-day Saint temple with an adjoining meetinghouse will find a home somewhere on the site, which has now been mostly leveled.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • The church absorbed it into a six-acre property on Doverhill Drive, turning half of it into a meetinghouse with a parking lot.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 May 2021
  • Almost conveniently, Howard said, Avon residents had long wanted a new meetinghouse to be built.
    — Michael Walsh, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Some 44 members have taken refuge in the church’s Kingston meetinghouse, according to a news release, where water and food are available.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Switching back to the traditional venue has helped attract relatively new members such as Tom Skolfield, who felt the church should meet in its meetinghouse.
    — G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2020
  • When the meetinghouse and the old Relief Society Hall next door reopen, which is scheduled for late summer, patrons will notice a lot of changes.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 May 2021
  • About 12 years ago, the Abington meetinghouse caretaker, Dave Wermeling, found an old sketch of Lay in a box.
    — Kristin E. Holmes, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Although the city has lost other historic buildings in recent years, according to Building Salt Lake, the meetinghouse was not supposed to be one of them.
    — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Beirut District President Maroun Akiki said all members in the area have been accounted for and a church meetinghouse near the blast site was not damaged.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Five free performances will take place at the meetinghouse adjacent to the Philadelphia Mormon Temple.
    — Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • After a fire heavily damaged a Utah meetinghouse nearly two years ago, the church decided to sell the building in Cottonwood Heights rather than repair it.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • On Saturdays, the basketball hoops at a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in Lehi are pulled back, transforming the space into a dance studio.
    — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The shooting took place in the parking lot of a meetinghouse of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church.
    — Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The handbook update took effect in the first week of August, Woodruff said, but the change will be formally communicated to local Church leaders as new meetinghouse safety guidelines in the near future.
    — Chris Boyette, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
  • For many Latter-day Saints, going to a meetinghouse every Sunday to hear sermons, take the bread-and-water sacrament, sing hymns, and enjoy the camaraderie of fellow believers has been a lifelong habit.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Plans call for an 82,000-square-foot, multistory temple, including a meetinghouse and an accompanying ancillary building.
    — Scott McIntosh, Idaho Statesman, 26 May 2026
  • On Thursday mornings, my high school’s upper grades gathered in our meetinghouse—a spartan, Italianate-style building whose wooden benches bore the etchings of a century and a half of antsy pencils and fingernails—and, for an hour, sat in near-total silence.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The shooting took place after an argument reportedly broke out during a funeral service at a local meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
    — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026

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