Prayer means A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like request or asking.
Prayer in a sentence
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Prayer meaning
- A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
- An act of praying.
- The specific words or methods used for praying.
Example sentences (20)
Apparently these fasts included a Ne'ilah (closing) prayer, a prayer now reserved for recitation on Yom Kippur only.
Prayer is one of the bonding elements of the body of Christ; prayer connects us to our brothers and sisters in Christ.
They took prayer out of school, but, as long as you got people who believe and pray – prayer is still in school.
The sister said during the prayer she collapsed, which the witness said was common during the church’s prayer sessions.
Nigerian Pastor TB Joshua has spent days at an undisclosed “prayer mountain” to “present the nations” to God in prayer.
Perhaps some of us struggle to really believe in the power of prayer because prayer, itself, is a mystery.
While doing that, she believed that the people of America most needed prayer, specifically eucharistic prayer and adoration.
However, even before the prayer, there is a preparation that can elevate the prayer, akin to how the prophets spoke with God.
The are now finding a place in poems and songs sung during prayer meetings in the community prayer halls.
He opens the proceedings each day with a prayer and counsels senators and staff through prayer groups and one-on-one meetings.
Soldiers of the 101st Resolute Support Sustainment Brigade bow their heads in prayer during the invocation for a prayer dinner.
The prayer that they might not have to leave at all — the prayer for the end of antisemitism itself — has not been answered yet.
They are often seen deep in prayer, poring through their scriptures or rotating their prayer wheels while murmuring their prayers.
We always have prayer before we eat and I must confess I had a very abbreviated prayer because I wanted to get into those leftovers.
Contemporary deist opinions on prayer Many classical deists were critical of some types of prayer.
In 1549 the first Book of Common Prayer in English used a version of the prayer with "trespasses".
Among Christian theologians, E.M. Bounds stated the educational purpose of prayer in every chapter of his book, The Necessity of Prayer.
And the prayer itself became instantly different – no longer a series of verses from the prayer book, but a genuine, aching supplication.
I join in prayer for the survivors and the dead,” Pope Francis said after the Angelus prayer.
If God answered every prayer immediately, you’d begin to think God was a big vending machine: Put in a prayer, pull out whatever you need.
Phrases with prayer
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with prayer
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of prayer 41×
- the prayer 40×
- prayer and 25×
- prayer is 19×
- prayer in 16×
- in prayer 13×
- prayer service 13×
- common prayer 10×
- prayer book 10×
- lord's prayer 9×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word prayer. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.