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noun

flock

CEFR B1

a church congregation guided by a pastor

In a sentence

Six example sentences with flock, each labelled with its topic.

  • After the harvest failed, the young curate led a hungry flock on foot to the next valley for grain.

    History

  • The fresco above the altar shows a shepherd counting a flock of upturned faces, each modeled on a parishioner.

    Art

  • Trollope's country clergyman worries less about doctrine than about whether the flock will forgive a change to the hymnal.

    Literature

  • The organist chooses hymns the flock already knows, since a congregation that cannot sing along stops listening.

    Music

  • The parish built a wider nave in 1890 because the flock had outgrown the chapel that once seated sixty.

    Architecture

  • The pastor urged his flock to vote on the school levy without telling them which way to mark the ballot.

    Politics

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