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• Biden has used both his presidential power and his bully pulpit.2025 January 16, Linda Feldmann, “Joe Biden served just one term. What will his legacy be?”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry bully pulpit
• Tens of millions of people tuned in and religio-fascists fulminated from every pulpit.2011, Kamila Shamsie, “Pop Idols”, in Granta, number 112, unnumbered page. From the entry religio-fascist
• From the pulpit festooned fancifully in prelatial purple the benediction of Cardinal Doppio-Mignoni would shortly fall.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 106. From the entry prelatial
• The hunting parson was, as said, not strong in the pulpit except in voice.1908, Sabine Baring-Gould, Devonshire Characters and Strange Events, Plymouth: Willian Brendon and Sons, Two Hunting Parsons. From the entry hunting parson
• I think a lot of Americans are actually searching for a church that’s relatively apolitical in the pulpit and the pews.2026 January 22, Ross Douthat, quoting Ryan Burge, “America’s Very Weird Religious Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry pew
• "Y'all means all," I proclaimed from the pulpit.2019, Rob Lee, A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South, Convergent Books, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry y'all means all
• 'Or maybe,' he went on, speaking from his boulder as from a pulpit, 'you need to beware of the post-pridesome fall.'2014, Alison Leonard, Heavenly Lilies. From the entry pridesome
• Far from needing to be repealed, the ban on politics in the pulpit ought to be enforced more aggressively.2013 September 8, “The pulpit should be free of politics”, in Los Angeles Times. From the entry enforce
• It depletes or demoralizes so many prayer-meetings, chills or misfills so many pulpits, and makes so many unworshipping choirs.2009, Milton Wright, edited by Timothy S. G. Binkley, A Higher Moral and Spiritual Stand: Selected Writings of Milton Wright, page 56. From the entry misfill
• Give us a pure Gospel or a vacant pulpit!1911, Charles Augustus Jenkens, The Bride's Return, Or, How Grand Avenue Church Came to Christ, C.H. Robinson, page 67. From the entry tone
• The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves.1906, Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, page 196. From the entry candidate
• Hurst wishes that lawmakers would use their bully pulpit to convene constituents for more of the sorts of conversations that took place in Portugal.2024 July 10, Stephen Humphries, Alfredo Sosa, “Stick, meet Carrot. How Portland police and activists teamed up to fight addiction.”, in…. From the entry bully pulpit
• From the winged words of corporation executives, from the pulpits of economic Poloniuses, the same evil is identified and decried: the collapse of productivity.2012, George Caffentzis, In Letters of Blood and Fire, page 30. From the entry Polonius
• Armstrong reaffirmed that he is, above all, interested in making seasonlong use of his bully pulpit to promote the worldwide fight against cancer.2009 January 18, Christopher Clarey, “Armstrong Returns to Riding With a Purpose”, in New York Times. From the entry seasonlong
• I read in the church bulletin that the preacher of the day, filling the pulpit in the absence of a full-time pastor, was Dr.1999 September 22, Joe Murray, “On the Road: Right at home at the First Baptist”, in Longview News-Journal, page 2A, columns 4–5. From the entry emeritus
• He stood beside a table in front of the pulpit and requested the morning offering, a proceeding that was strange to Jem and me.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 reverend
• 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
• Civil was acrimoniously disputing the orthodoxy of this visiting brother's intention to sing this from the pulpit at the close of the evening sermon.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry acrimoniously
• Charming though not effusive, polished but not slick, these favored few could as easily have appeared on Piers Morgan Tonight as behind their megachurch Sunday pulpits.2013, Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry megachurch
• Instead of fire-and-brimstone denunciations from the pulpit, the ex-gay movement allowed the Christian right to couch its condemnation of homosexuality in a way that seemed compassionate.2012 April 11, Gabriel Arana, “My So-Called Ex-Gay Life”, in The American Prospect, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2026. From the entry ex-gay
• Unfortunately racial profiling, politicking from behind the pulpit and gender baiting damage the witness of the Church—even though it sometimes plays well within the specific group.2007, R. D. Bernard, Making Church Matter, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry gender baiting
• After he was through, another man was invited to stand up before the pulpit facing the direction of Jerusalem to recite the prayer proper, i.e., the Amida.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 108. From the entry officer
• Without a note for his sermon he stepped into his pulpit and, buoyed up by the happiness that surged within him, he signified his intention to begin.1901, Fred Schultz Lincoln, An Indiana Girl, Chapter 12. From the entry outsit
• On every kid’s list of favourite plants is our quirky Jack-in-the-pulpit with its green, red or purple spadices (the Jacks) and hooded green-, red- or almost black-striped spathes (the pulpits).2017 May 24, Stephen Westcott-Gratton, “Purple pulpits and trilliums”, in Gardenmaking. From the entry jack
• Hutchinson, to 'spit fire out of their pulpits,' and even the rout of their allies at Dunbar, though it made their tongues less dangerous, did not make them more smooth.2011, Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship, Works of Thomas Hill Green, →ISBN, page 332. From the entry spit fire
• There is only a pulpit for the preacher, which stands along the left side, and on the right is the mimbar, that is a flight of stairs with ten steps.2002, John Avetaranian, Richard Schafer, The Muslim Who Became a Christian, Authors On Line 2003, p. 122. From the entry mimbar

Meaning of pulpit

1. noun A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.
2. noun Activity associated with or usually performed from a church pulpit; preaching, sermons, religious teaching.
3. noun The preaching profession, office, or role in general; the pastorate, the priesthood, the ministry.

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How do you use pulpit in a sentence?

Pulpit is used as a noun. For example: “He seems like too timid a man to fill the pulpit at such a large church.”

What is a short sentence with pulpit?

“"Y'all means all," I proclaimed from the pulpit.”

What does pulpit mean?

Pulpit means a raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.