How to Use pulpit in a Sentence

pulpit

noun
  • There’s still a stage where a pulpit once stood.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Whispers made their way from the pulpit to the back of the line.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 9 June 2020
  • Faith leaders must speak out from their pulpits.
    — Fabienne Perlov, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Williams’ voice is soft and compelling, honed from years at the pulpit.
    — Danika Worthington, The Denver Post, 11 June 2017
  • The preacher took a deep breath and leaned forward in the pulpit.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 14 May 2017
  • Some are preaching about mental health from the pulpit for the first time.
    — Aneri Pattani, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Her casket, draped in white cloth, was rolled before the pulpit.
    — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 6 Oct. 2017
  • They are told from the pulpit to give first, save second and live off the rest of their incomes.
    — Craig Harris, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The reverend stands tall at the pulpit and reads from the Gospel of Matthew.
    — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • On the field, Goldschmidt has made first base his pulpit for preaching the good word.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • In the spring, skunk cabbage was coming up, Jack-in-the-pulpit.
    — Thomas Gebremedhin, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Moore later delivered the speech, which won first place in the state, at the chapel pulpit.
    — Sydney Trent, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
  • This topic has had a home on Williamson’s podiums, pulpits, and pages for decades.
    — Jenni Avins, Quartz, 30 July 2019
  • There's no clergy, pulpit or altar.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Yet the large choir stand behind the pulpit is opened for dozens who arrive later and will not find an open seat.
    — Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The pastors who made the Baylor list had plenty of pulpit chops to call on.
    — John Blake, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • The gallery is now the congregation and the stand now becomes the pulpit.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
  • This was their mass, and Jalen Brunson led it from his hardwood pulpit.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • From the pulpit, Reverend Renè Brown said that all of this was on his mind.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
  • Others have doubled down on the pulpit’s role as a space for moral wrestling and prophetic critique.
    — Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The pulpit where sermons were preached looked like an abstract disaster.
    — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But in the message that came from the church pulpit, the divine had a different agenda.
    — Matt Viser, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • The image of him silhouetted on the pulpit-like summit is the kind that climbers dream about.
    — New York Times, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Pastor Lorenzo Jones stood in a tub of water in his white pulpit gown.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
  • For baptisms, the pulpit and floor were opened like a door to reveal the baptism tank underneath.
    — James Hales Remembering Rogers, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2023
  • If everyone from the pews to the pulpit would rather stay home, what is a practical house of worship to do?
    — Ruth Graham, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The only difference is that Guyton will preach from his home, not from the pulpit.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The camera panned to Pastor Bruns, standing next to his son at the pulpit.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 5 May 2020
  • Toni Kennedy read proclamations from the city and the state that were projected on a screen near the pulpit.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • At the Easter church service, the minister taunts him from the pulpit.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022

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