pulpit

[US]/ˈpʊlpɪt/
[UK]/ˈpʊlpɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.preaching platform
elevated control desk
clergyman
Word Forms
Pluralpulpits

Phrases & Collocations

pulpit preacher

Example Sentences

they chopped up the pulpit for firewood.

anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron.

The pews, the pulpit and the altar are of a piece with the simple elegance of the church itself.

He vituperated from the pulpit the vices of the court.

he could use the presidency as a bully pulpit to bring out the best in civic life.

the movies could rival the pulpit as an agency moulding the ideas of the mass public.

Real-world Examples

" This is the power of the bully pulpit, the power of organizing."

Source: Vox opinion

What is now needed is a demonstration of the science of life from the pulpit.

Source: The Lost Wealth Classics

When people say you shouldn't be preaching the politics from your pulpit, that is ridiculous.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

On stage and in the pulpit, moral dilemmas of this kind tend to have a black-and-white clarity.

Source: The Economist - Arts

He stands behind the pulpit, which is a wooden box, and he puts the bible on that box.

Source: American English dialogue

Vestiges was warmly blasted from pulpits throughout Britain and far beyond, but also attracted a good deal of more scholarly ire.

Source: A Brief History of Everything

Behind the pulpit the choir fanned steadily.

Source: The Sound and the Fury

I shall not speak from this pulpit any more.

Source: Sophie's World (Original Version)

Presently she leant over the front of the pulpit.

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 1)

Theodore Parker in his pulpit was not much safer.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 1)

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