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• Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.From the entry doeskin
• The church was repurposed as a nightclub by lighting changes and removing the pews, but it never opened.From the entry repurpose
• They want butts in pews, or at least the coronatide equivalent.2020 July 10, Jana Riess, “If you want to win Latter-Day Saints back to the church, shame and fear are not how to do it”, in The Salt Lake…. From the entry Coronatide
• He leaned back in the pew and twisted his hat to the frontwards position.2005, Christopher J. Dwyer, Shape The Black Sky. From the entry frontwards
• Then shut the Book and strode down the aisle past every half-filled pew.1978, DeKalb Literary Arts Journal, volumes 14-16, page 73. From the entry carpent
• Along its walls unlighted kerosene lamps hung on brass brackets; pine benches served as pews.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry unceiled
• Fear is what puts butts into pews, what knocks us kneebound as if by the baton of a slavedriver.2017, Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two: Empire Decayed. From the entry kneebound
• The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees.2010, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir. From the entry blasty
• The Stockton organ was financed partly by the sale of pews in the newly erected organ gallery and partly by subscription.2006, Roz Southey, “Organs and Psalms”, in Music-making in North-east England during the Eighteenth Century, Aldershot, Hampshire…. From the entry boatage
• Pew is a bench you sit on in church.2000 February 22, Karl Reinhardt, “How to spell???”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 20 Jun 2022. From the entry PU
• The villagers in the congregation touched their forelocks as the Oxenfords made their way down the aisle to the family pew.1991, Ken Follett, chapter 2, in Night Over Water. From the entry touch one's forelock
• Her annoyance sharpened to anger when, ending the inspection at her own pew, she found it occupied by a stranger.1935, Margaret Widdemer, “Guidance”, in Dorothy Scarborough, editor, Selected Short Stories of Today, New York, N.Y.: Farrar & Rinehart…. From the entry béreted
• The genial ‘take a pew’ of one's equal inspires confidence.1903, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in A Prefect's Uncle. From the entry take a pew
• Juan Diego hadn’t noticed the other people in the temple, except for what appeared to be two mourners; they knelt in the foremost pew.2015, John Irving, chapter 7, in Avenue of Mysteries, London: Doubleday, page 70. From the entry foremost
• Disappointment slouched him into the pew.2012, Kim Vogel Sawyer, When Hope Blossoms, page 281. From the entry slouch
• Kay genuflected before entering her row and then knelt on the hard wooden rail of the pew to wait for her call to Communion.circ. 1965, Mario Puzo, The Godfather. From the entry genuflect
• He was a wide man and looked wider in his surplice, especially from our pew, which was close up under the pulpit.1942, Emily Carr, “The Blessing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry surplice
• The stained-glass windows were cleaned; years of built-up soil removed from the murals; the wooden pews sanded and refinished, the kneeling benches covered with soft new carpeting.2008, Mary Higgins Clark, Where Are You Now?. From the entry built-up
• To bring his head somewhere down near hers, he slid down and scrunged his bony knees to one side and beneath the music rack on the pew ahead.1949, Frederick Feikema Manfred, The primitive, page 221. From the entry scrunge

Meaning of pew

1. noun One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.
2. noun The congregation of a church.
3. noun An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family.

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How do you use pew in a sentence?

Pew is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “In many churches some pews are reserved for either clerical or liturgical officials such as canons, or for prominent families.”

What is a short sentence with pew?

“Pull up a pew.”

What does pew mean?

Pew means one of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.