Sentence examples for like a congregation from inspiring English sources

When he is finished, the children answer with a "merci," like a congregation answering with an "amen".

A strange occurrence, but then again strange things happen in the Sax-Zim Bog — like a congregation of four great gray owls.

He applied the same technique to stand-up, playing his audience like a congregation, and although his material was outrageous, it was his evangelical delivery which set him apart from any comic who'd come before.

The raucous standing ovations that are now almost automatic on Broadway testify to something like a resurrection, as the slumped, weary bodies of theatregoers – "a community of seekers", like a congregation – are jazzed into vitality all over again.

— Name Withheld, Manhattan It is estimable for members of a community, like a congregation, to respond to one another's distress, but less creditable to be busybodies, snooping into a neighbor's personal life.

The journey culminated in the encampment in the famed wagon wheel circle of a vast fleet of Airstreams in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza, like a congregation of silvery metal worshippers.

I want to make room for a congregation like Open Table".

Examples of such sentiments can be found among members in a congregation like First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

Their new "Vanishing Point" might be considered another, since it is loosely centered on the idea of a funeral, with the audience, like a church congregation, facing a draped coffin on a bier.

Singing about the power of love, jumping and flipping her hair, she sounded equally devout and amorous, hurling the songs skyward while the audience whooped like a disco congregation.

Suddenly, the sound of my blades, which had seemed to fill the air around me, was replaced by another, more murmurous tone, like a church congregation heard from afar.