How to Use synagogue in a Sentence

synagogue

noun
  • The men escaped into the synagogue and locked the door, the NYPD said.
    — Rob Frehse and Anna Sturla, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • The synagogue where the Siegels worshipped was among the temples burned to the ground.
    — Ethan Sacks, NBC News, 13 July 2024
  • Shots fired in the parking lot of a synagogue in New York.
    — Erin Ailworth, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
  • When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Today, the town has two large mosques and more than a dozen synagogues.
    — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Members of the synagogue were split over the death penalty.
    — David Nakamura The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The roof of the synagogue had collapsed and most walls were destroyed.
    — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The synagogue was already closed at the time of the shooting, Deutsch tweeted.
    — Bloomberg.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Police were first called to the synagogue around 11 a.m.
    — Jake Bleiberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2022
  • One rock wall bears an engraved Star of David that may have been part of a synagogue.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Today, the doors of the synagogue are still locked, and a chain-link fence surrounds the property.
    — Kris Maher, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Fox News has reached out to the synagogue near where the stabbing occurred but has not heard back.
    — Fox News, 2 July 2021
  • My parents were some of the founders of the Riverdale Temple, which is a Reform synagogue.
    — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2025
  • Half was hidden in a safe under the bimah of a synagogue so that even the Germans could not find it.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • Alter wants people to live their faith outside the four walls of the synagogue.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2020
  • There is also a Wish List on Amazon, where those who want to help can have items sent straight to the synagogue.
    — Mike Nolan, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The route took the men past a synagogue where a bat mitzvah was underway.
    — Deborah Baker june 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025
  • The services were being livestreamed on the synagogue’s Facebook page for a time.
    — sun-sentinel.com, 16 Jan. 2022
  • In 2017, the couple married at a New York City synagogue.
    — Hannah Malach, ELLE, 1 Mar. 2023
  • And in Arizona, a brick was thrown through a synagogue window.
    — Jeff Pegues, CBS News, 21 May 2021
  • The first synagogue dates from 1528 and was built by German Ashkenazi Jews.
    — Chris Warde-Jones, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022
  • Enter Berlin’s House of One, the world’s first planned structure that will house a synagogue, a church, and a mosque under one roof.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Listed on the back were the names and numbers of a church, a synagogue and a nonprofit on Martha’s Vineyard.
    — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Her findings even led her to join a synagogue in the 1980s and to become a practicing Jew.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
  • At the time of the attack, the synagogue was reportedly closed.
    — Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The resulting footage, of the two men side by side in the synagogue, inspired a frenzy in the Jewish and Arab media.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • It is often said that the gabbai (sexton) in a synagogue has the most thankless job.
    — Norman B. Gildin, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Officials When the synagogue moved to repair the wall, the men tried to stop it, according to a Chabad spokesperson.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • This proposal had aimed to take land inside the Ag Reserve and exchange it for land outside of it to build more than 1,000 homes, a synagogue, school, a park and more.
    — Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 8 June 2025
  • Scheiner added that the woman has spoken at local synagogues and schools about her life and having survived the Holocaust.
    — Chris Spargo, People.com, 2 June 2025

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