On this page you'll find 20 example sentences with Pray. You'll also see the meaning and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Pray in a sentence
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Pray meaning
- To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
- To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
- To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
Synonyms of Pray
Example sentences (20)
Despite Shahin they pray together for peace, he allegedly shouted: “You Muslims must die!” and attacked the pair.
During Lent with our diocesan pilgrimage, we’ve been kneeling to be with Jesus and to pray,” Bishop Brennan said.
At the same time, pray and intercede for friends and family who may be experiencing their time for purification.
Coptic Orthodox Christians pray for an end to religious persecution in the Middle East at a service in Melbourne in 2020.
As you get closer and closer to our home star, you better pray your car’s air conditioner is in good shape!
I have prepared where I will be buried when I die; I have told my wife too, they will take me to the church and pray for me.
He urges us to remain patient, pray for our country and remain vigilant in our pursuit of Renewed Hope.
And immediately, he asked the people, lowering his head, to pray for him so that God would bless him.
Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth has called on Catholics to pray for peace if the 2020 election results are challenged in court.
Beginning on the Solemnity of All Saints, families gather to pray for loved ones who have passed.
Instead, supervisors instructed Pray to limit his contact with Officer 8 to work-related matters.
Detainees at the Cook County Jail pray during a Christmas Day mass at the jail on Dec. 25, 2023.
First Baptist Church has called on Nigerians to pray for Nigeria and the new administration for the country to experience improvement.
For as long as that’s the case, I will continue to pray with my body and sometimes “self-afflict” in the name of justice and equality.
He commended Rivers people for their support and pray that they continue to give their unalloyed support to his government to succeed.
We pray for wisdom and guidance to our President as call on all Nigerians to pray for his good health and long life.
After going a few times with him I met with 2 hot missionaries who asked me to pray with them.
As Jews who go to synagogue every Shabbat and Jews who pray alone silently in their kitchens.
Brothers Samiullah Safi, left, and Abdul Wasi Safi pray during Friday prayers at the Al-Noor Society Mosque in Houston, on April 7, 2023.
And we will pray; pray for the survivors, for those with shaken faith, for the purification of our Mother, the Church.
Common combinations with pray
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pray for 88×
- to pray 72×
- and pray 29×
- pray that 23×
- we pray 13×
- pray and 10×
- pray to 9×
- pray with 9×
- please pray 8×
- pray in 7×
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