kirk
noun
a church.
kirks
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pluralof kirk.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Another of Thomson's Presbyterian kirks, perhaps the most dramatic of all, Queen's Park church, was destroyed by an incendiary bomb dropped by the Germans in 1943.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2017
It was a wonderfu' wise step, that forbidding o' pictures in the kirks.
From Scottish sketches by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
A' gaed richt till we cam' to the new brig across the Water o' Dee, that was biggit a year or twa syne wi' the collections in the kirks.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
I was flittin' along over the tops o' trees an' the spires o' kirks when I zoom out over a wooded slope with a big cleared field in the middle o' the woods.
From A Yankee Flier Over Berlin by Paul Laune
Small though Thrums used to be, it had four kirks in all before the Disruption, and then another, which split into two immediately afterwards.
From Auld Licht Idylls by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
