pulpit

[ UK /pˈʌlpɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈpʊɫpɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
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How To Use pulpit In A Sentence

  • The capel needs your money, boys bach, that the light -- the grand, religious light -- shall shine in the pulpit. My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People
  • For all his bold chivalry this watchful Celt seems surely to have strayed from a wayside pulpit.
  • It can be tough when your father, the prime minister, has just indulged in pulpitry about drunken yobs.
  • When it came time for the sermon, he watched the minister take off his wristwatch and place it on the pulpit.
  • O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never cried 'Have patience, good people!' As You Like It
  • The wildflowers, many of which bloom in May, include waterleaf, wild ginger, red trillium, Jack-in-the-pulpit, smooth and woolly blue violet, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, and enchanter's nightshade.
  • It was only to be the edging on a shawl for her, but he spent three days and two nights on it; and then she asked him to make it over with jack-in-the-pulpit inset, because she was sure to grow tired very soon of Sweet William; then she changed her mind about jack-in-the-pulpit and decided on wintergreen berries. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • Crazy Shelly has a host of pet preachers who have campaigned from the pulpit on her behalf. Think Progress » Despite Claiming That She Never Called Obama ‘Anti-American,’ Bachmann Now Brags About How She Did
  • Yesterday we got not a nudge but a forceful shove from a man who is supremely confident in his bully pulpit. Times, Sunday Times
  • But it was significant chiefly for its use of Turkey as an example, not a pulpit. Times, Sunday Times
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