Example Sentences

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After a while, he stepped down, dragged over a ladder, and climbed to the pulpit's top.

From Time Magazine Archive

As always, it was President Clinton, the most finely tuned politician of the age and the bully pulpit's current occupant, who best captured the prevailing political tone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the glass top of his desk at the Pentagon, Powell kept a pulpit's worth of sayings: Get mad, then get over it.

From Time Magazine Archive

His audience was less averse from the principle that the artist should on no account usurp the pulpit's function.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard

Papa leaned further out and hit the window sill with his hand for all the world like a parson hitting his pulpit's cushion.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von