(v. t.) That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.
(v. t.) All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jack Colback’s free-kick was deep and when Fabricio Coloccini headed back, Chancel Mbemba nodded goalwards.
(2) McClaren also lost the defenders Chancel Mbemba and Paul Dummett to injury.
(3) Capitalising on Chancel Mbemba’s mistake, the substitute striker rounded Rob Elliot, who was to make a vital 90th-minute save to deny Cheikhou Kouyaté, before scoring with only his second touch.
(4) Chancel Mbemba and Fabricio Coloccini struggled to contain King, while the gritty Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter ensured his side won the midfield battle on only his third appearance of the season.
(5) Children’s art is on display and in the granite church sunlight enhances the 1466 brass effigies of the serjeant-at-law Nicholas de Assheton, who died the year before, and his wife, Margaret – figures normally hidden beneath the chancel floor but revealed on this day.
(6) Watford nearly restored their two-goal advantage when Ighalo and Deeney combined adroitly but Chancel Mbemba’s splendid late intervention denied Deeney.
(7) Newcastle came close as Aleksandar Mitrovic and Chancel Mbemba threatened.
(8) Agüero saw a penalty appeal against Chancel Mbemba turned down (almost certainly correctly) after being very smartly played in by De Bruyne and Karl Darlow was required to make a superb save to keep out Jesús Navas’s curving shot.
(9) I hope that people can be reasonable and talk things through, and my track record shows that I am willing to make accommodations … but I won’t compromise principle.” Pope Francis journeys to Washington to begin historic US visit – live updates Read more That line-in-the-chancel position on some of the key topics dividing American Catholics today – especially issues of family and sexuality – has angered the Bay Area faithful and drawn national attention leading to unfavorable comparisons to Pope Francis.
(10) There was no real end product though, and Chelsea almost made their hosts pay for over-adventurousness in attack when Chancel Mbemba was caught in possession much too far up the pitch, creating a hole in central defence into which Cesc Fàbregas strode to bring a diving save from Krul.
(11) Lascelles will be suspended for West Bromwich Albion’s visit to St James’ on Saturday and McClaren lost two other defenders here, Chancel Mbemba and Paul Dummett, to injury.
(12) He joins Georginio Wijnaldum, Aleksandar Mitrovic, Chancel Mbemba and Ivan Toney through the door and McClaren will hope his arrival kick-starts their Premier League campaign following a draw and a defeat from the opening two games.
(13) Appropriately he began the decisive move exchanging passes with Ulloa and making an angled, offside defying run, before cutting cleverly inside Chancel Mbemba.
(14) Aaron Ramsey found Sánchez and he asked Danny Welbeck to chase a ball that he put in behind Chancel Mbemba.
(15) Damningly McClaren has been deprived of a fit specialist left-back for much of the season while Chancel Mbemba – an £8m buy from Anderlecht last summer and his best centre-half – appears to have fallen victim to the club’s injury jinx.
(16) • Advise you of any "incurred costs" including well-known ones like stamp duty or much more unusual charges like chancel repair liability applying to a few homes near churches.
(17) In Kinshasha, Crystal Palace’s Yannick Bolasie and the Newcastle defender Chancel Mbemba both played in DR Congo’s 2-1 win over Angola.
Choir
Definition:
(n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.
(n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.
(n.) The chancel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bono then serenaded the archbishop with the U2 hit Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, backed by the gospel choir.
(2) He has plans to assemble choirs of 17 people in Derry, China and Brazil, and 17 Tutsis and 17 Hutus in Rwanda.
(3) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
(4) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
(5) Founded in 1982, Twenty Twenty is the company behind factual programmes such as The Choir, That'll Teach 'Em', Bad Lads Army, Brat Camp and current BBC2 show Grandad's Back in Business.
(6) Recent BBC2 hits included science series Wonders of the Solar System, the Springwatch-inspired Lambing Live, sitcom Miranda and The Choir follow-up Unsung Town.
(7) Bob gave a really touching speech before we started singing, so that really got everybody in the mind frame that we needed to be in to remind us that it’s fun but we’re here for a really serious reason.” Sandé added that the participants “sounded like a really powerful choir” when they sang the chorus.
(8) Musical interludes, courtesy of Gwyneth Paltrow, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and, in over the end credits, an enormous children's choir belting out Over the Rainbow were only marginally better received.
(9) Another hero of the punk era, Mick Jones of the Clash, who co-wrote My Daddy was a Bank Robber, was also present but the music was left to the choir and the Alabama Three who sang Too Sick to Pray.
(10) I hate it when people are very different online than they are in person, and she’s very unified,” says Choire Sicha, her former editor at Gawker.
(11) The people of Great Britain, with the co-ordination of a shoal of mullet, didn’t just put the Lewisham and Greenwich choir in with a bullet, they made sure to buy enough of Bieber’s own work that his generous spirit would be rewarded with chart spots two, three and five.
(12) At the 1996 Brit Awards he was accompanied on stage by a children's choir, prompting a stage invasion by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, who claimed his attitude was "Messiah-like".
(13) He and his scraggy, kind old dog Gerard were based every evening at Leicester Square tube (exit 1), and for the past two years we met every week on my way home from choir.
(14) Those who refer to such gatherings as simply preaching to the choir miss the point.
(15) Shorter, a retired electrician from Kent, began singing for the first time after joining the care home’s newly formed choir last year.
(16) My friends and I had formed the choir at university, calling ourselves Coro Bajocuerda, which means “against the ropes”; it’s how we felt living under Pinochet’s oppressive regime.
(17) "This is the first time we've been able to throw out an idea like, 'Dude, it'd be cool to have a gospel choir', and it wouldn't get shot down."
(18) This meant that if a parent was involved in flower arranging or choir rehearsals at church, they stood a better chance of securing their child a place.
(19) This humiliating practice was nicknamed "the choir".
(20) The subjects were 22 male and female junior and senior high school Caucasians in a central Kentucky church youth choir.