Examples of pew

• With pews filled beyond capacity and comfort, 600 demonstrators would be forced to crane forward in order to listen from the market square.

• It is also clear that proximity to the pulpit was one of the defining characteristics of a prestigious pew.

• His hypocritical misuse of money is perhaps best embodied by his purchase of a front-row church pew.

• It is the custom there to hand the alm's plate in the pews.

• Similarly, administering communion with congregants seated in their pews and using individual glasses arose from practical concerns for efficiency and hygiene.

• Pulpits and pews were allies in this work, wooden partners in an enterprise that was given life by their respective occupants, preachers and parishioners.

• In the former case they are brought out by bickering concerning church pews, in the latter rivalry between local families of gentry led to public disorder.

• It is like denouncing those who have come to church for the empty pews.