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Example sentences for: pray

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

It was in this house that Bill spent his formative years, learning to walk, talk, laugh, play, read, and pray.
As a proud resident of a Manhattan neighborhood that I pray will always be called the Upper West Side and as a Times reader who has never deigned to look at "Circuits," I'm afraid that I don't have much to add to your clever insights from the F train.
I do, however, pray fervently that the use of African-American would vanish completely.
And what, pray tell, does the paper's "comics screening process" screen *for*?
They follow their instincts and pray that they'll connect.