How to Use megachurch in a Sentence

megachurch

noun
  • How to take on the hypocrisy of megachurch culture on a micro budget?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The day would end up melding politics and megachurch.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The megachurch has done this with at least two of its satellite’s properties.
    — Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The cast assembles on the megachurch stage, each taking their turn in a pool of light.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The world’s largest megachurch, for example, is not in the US.
    — John Blake, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • And a megachurch leader was charged with murder and torture in the death of her daughter.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
  • There’s a golf course nearby, a megachurch and The Home Depot.
    — Lilly Kersh, Dallas Morning News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • But the megachurch pastor also happens to be embroiled in this unholy mess.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
  • In reality, the building sits in the vast asphalt parking lot of a megachurch.
    — Mike Reicher, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The housing crisis has been compounded by the growth of a local megachurch, Bethel.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • Eric plays a megachurch pastor from Texas who has the same thing going on as the Gemstones.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Moreno, 36, was killed by two off-duty cops working security at the megachurch.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • About 80 other students were inside the megachurch at the time, Fitzgerald said.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 June 2022
  • Ballesteros is on hand for when West joins Joel Osteen on stage at a megachurch and performs in a prison.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Greene, meanwhile, had recently been baptized at an Atlanta-area megachurch.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • His church hasn't publicly released membership numbers, but many in the media have described it as a megachurch.
    — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2025
  • But now anyone making a donation to his megachurch, America’s largest, can get one.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Here's everything to know about the controversial pastor that once led the celebrity megachurch.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • What crime is former Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris accused of?
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 16 May 2025
  • These live versions dynamite that meditative hollow or expand it to the size of a megachurch.
    — Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The megachurch celebrity pastor was seen to pause his sermon and shake as people approached him on stage in footage posted to social media.
    — James Powel, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In the main building, the interior is massive, yet hollow and bland, resembling a megachurch.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Even on the outskirts of town, near the shopping plaza and the megachurch, the GOP is winning lawns in a landslide.
    — David Litt, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Lentz later joined a Midwest megachurch in Tulsa as a strategist in 2023.
    — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
  • For years Carl was one of the most high-profile faces of the celebrity megachurch, often palling around with members like Justin Bieber.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 May 2021
  • The megachurch pastor addressed the incident virtually at his church’s live stream on Dec 1.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 2 Dec. 2024
  • At the end of last month, Gateway hired Virginia megachurch pastor Daniel Floyd to serve as the church’s new lead pastor.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2025
  • Now, the public and those who have accused the megachurch pastor must wait even longer for the case to proceed as a new prosecutor becomes familiar with the case.
    — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • In 1921, McPherson broke ground on her megachurch, while the fed-up and upstaged Harold filed for divorce.
    — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Ebo has a deep understanding of the interworkings of the Black megachurch and the particular role of the church’s first lady.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 25 Jan. 2022

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