What is "confessionals"

Usage examples of "confessionals".

She paid them no mind as she genuflected, made the sign of the cross, then kissed the figure of the Blessed Jesus hanging from the end of her robe before heading toward the confessionals in the back of the room.

Taking a seat within one of the confessionals, she shut the door and then clasped her hands in her lap and bowed her head.

Where the toilet stalls should have been, three dark wood confessionals stood instead.

In the far corner were two draped confessionals, conspiring side-by-side.

But the old priest grabbed my arm and led me toward the corner of the building where the confessionals were.

The little chapel in its subdued lights and shadows, with confessionals and crosses and candles and incense, was as restful a refuge as ever to the tired and the dependent.

He walked past the row of confessionals, the center door of each with its barred window curtained in black and the doors to the penitents' booths solid wood.

The only difference between this and the confessionals of his boyhood was the sound.

Did her inability to go to church‑because in churches you found confessionals, and in confessionals secrets could not be kept‑turn sour inside her and make her a little sharp, a little hurtful?

To persuade the detectives that he was not the booze-swilling lech that he had appeared to be at the nudie joint, the commissioner had arranged the payoff meeting to take place in one of the empty confessionals at St.