churchlike
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of churchlike
Example Sentences
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I remember their home and the churchlike windows facing their lush backyard.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025
Her ‘60s-meets-2020 “Sleigh Ride” is like hearing a new song and her “Silent Night” is churchlike, respectfully glorious.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2020
He has distanced himself from the president since then and spent the past year holding invitation-only churchlike musical events he calls “Sunday Service.”
From Slate • Oct. 25, 2019
The churchlike space is bedecked with stained-glass windows, gold moulding, and oil paintings of men in wigs.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2019
The chapel building, opposite B-block, was used mainly to show movies, but it had churchlike worship spaces for Catholics and Protestants and areas in its basement for Muslims, Jews, and Quakers.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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