Example sentences for: devotional

How can you use “devotional” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The central focus of many yards is often a devotional shrine set up in memory of a family member, with a nicho housing a saint or Madonna, and the design of the yard’s plants and flowers is laid out in reference to the shrine.

  • It is purely a personal promise made to fulfill or complete a journey, a devotional act, or to recite a certain number of prayers.

  • In 1788 a Spanish official, lighting a devotional candle in the private chapel in his home on Chartres Street, started a fire which spread, fanned by the wind, to devour nearly half the town.

  • In the Kannon Hall of this temple is the largest wooden devotional figure in the country: a statue of the “Eleven-Faced Goddess of Mercy,” some 10 m (33 ft) high, carved from a single tree trunk and covered in gold leaf.

  • This devotional approach seemed right for Vermeer: so few paintings, scattered far and wide, gathered here for once in a lifetime.


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