How to Use pew in a Sentence

pew

noun
  • Charred pieces of wood sit in the pews.
    — Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • The bars at the venue were made from pews.
    — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Dreher knelt in one of the pews and prayed.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Where to hang, race, putt, two-step and pew-pew!
    — Fritz Hahn, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • No kicking the pew in front of you.
    — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 22 June 2026
  • The person sat in the last pew on the left side of the church.
    — William Mansell and, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Some 75 people filled the pews.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Jones draws a direct line from church pews to the blue carpet.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 8 May 2025
  • More people in the pews of churches!
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • Each pew was full and a small crowd gathered in the room beyond.
    — Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
  • Bryan and Karla sat in the fifth pew from the front, on the left.
    — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Each pew was full, and a small crowd gathered in the room beyond.
    — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
  • An angry man no one seems to know seethes at the end of the farthest pew.
    — Rima Parikh, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Among the works is one of four little girls sitting on a church pew, dressed up.
    — Elizabeth Kramer, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Curreri left the stage and went back to his pew to take his seat next to Sproule.
    — Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • On my way back to the pew, the guilt was still there, loping doggedly at my side.
    — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
  • In the chaos that ensued, Baldwin set the gun on a church pew.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The two children were sitting in pews at Mass when they were shot.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The pews are mostly gone, replaced with the heart of the studio.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Churches, of which there were many, preached to full pews on Sundays.
    — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Footage of the aftermath shows broken pews and blood strewn across the church's walls.
    — Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • The voice was forged in church pews and rose from the wreckage of Tulsa’s dark past.
    — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Count who is actually in the pews.
    — Peter McGraw, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • People in the pews began yelling and rushing out of view of the camera.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 23 June 2025
  • My son sat in church the next day with his legs dangling off the pew clutching his small space shuttle toy.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, al.com, 23 July 2019
  • The church held just eight wooden pews and had no air conditioning.
    — Aaron Parsley, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Its raw meaning can be unsettling, even for those sitting in a pew.
    — Michael J Christensen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Rows of pews with too much air between them, with hardly any family and no friends.
    — Bing Chen, Time, 13 Mar. 2026

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