Example sentences for: pulpit

How can you use “pulpit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Presidents derived their license to serve as leader-preacher from Theodore Roosevelt's remark that the presidency was "a bully pulpit," a remark that did not appear in his Inaugural Address.

  • The metaphor of the pulpit suggests not reading but oral and visual contact between the preacher and his flock.

  • In William Greider's long book on the Federal Reserve, Secrets of the Temple (a fascinating book but, in retrospect, a remarkably ill-considered indictment of inflation-fighting), there's not much mention of the conversion of the Federal Reserve into a bully pulpit.

  • Howard Moody, a liberal and outspoken Baptist who occupied the pulpit at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village.)

  • "This is a novel that doesn't seem written, but declaimed, in a WASP Jesse Jackson style, from a Darien pulpit" (Dwight Garner, the Village Voice ).


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