All 14 Uses
congregation
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Change of Heart, by Picoult
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- Today, I was supposed to be writing a homily—if I could get it down to seven minutes, I knew the older members of the congregation wouldn't fall asleep—but instead, my mind kept straying to one of our youngest members.†
congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- The catch was that there was no Temple Beth Or: his reform congregation held Friday night services in the cafeteria of the middle school, because the original temple had burned to the ground.†
- The expectation had been to raise funds for a new temple, but my father had overestimated the size of his rural New Hampshire congregation, and although he assured me that they were closing in on buying land somewhere, I didn't see it happening anytime soon.†
- By now, anyway, his congregation had grown used to readings from the Torah that were routinely punctuated by the cheers of the crowd at the basketball game in the gymnasium down the hall.†
- A neighbor's car zoomed past—someone from my father's congregation, who honked a hello.†
- Shay was standing at the front of his house now, preaching to his congregation, disconnected from linear thought and everything but his moment of grandstanding.†
- Let me tell you, that congregation had a lot of questions—after all, they'd grown up with Him, and knew Him before He started the miracle train—so before they could doubt Him, what did He do?†
- His congregation arrived in their cars on Sunday mornings and received a blue flyer with the day's scripture, and a note to tune in to AM 1620 in order to hear the good reverend when he took the pulpit—formerly the snack bar, when it was a movie theater.†
- I walked down the aisle, past the holy water, past the bulletin board with the information about the young boy from Zimbabwe the congregation supported with their donations.†
- I thought about what my father would say if a member of his congregation came to him to ease his soul.†
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- And you, sir, your congregation meets in a former drive-in movie theater?†
- Where's your congregation?†
- Renata invited me in for tea, and when I told her I had a message for Grace from a person in my congregation, she simply wrote out an address and handed it to me.†
- I have a message for you, from one of the parishioners in my congregation.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.