Example sentences for: manda

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

  • If a woman makes a manda asking for a cure to her child’s illness and the child is cured but she does not complete the manda, the child may become ill again.

  • Lighting daily candles could be a financial strain, and a pilgrimage may take several years to complete, yet neither is ever forgotten, and a manda is taken more seriously than a legal written contract.

  • In many families the shrine is erected as the result of a promesa or manda (promise or vow) made to a particular saint, or in memory of a family member who has died.

  • The manda may involve the placing of a milagro (symbol of a miracle) at the shrine of a saint, La Virgen de Guadalupe cathedral in Mexico City for example, or the lighting of candles at the local church.

  • A manda may be completed after the request is fulfilled in thanksgiving, or it may be fulfilled before the petition is answered, with the assumption that it will be answered.


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