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Example sentences for: prayed

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Raise your hand if you believe Schippers a) was feeling sorrowful; b) had prayed that his months of effort to nail the president would be in vain; c) was being frank; d) had no settled view on the whole matter even after analyzing the Starr report, until "our investigation" (whatever that consisted of).
Oklahomans have prayed for divine intervention to no avail.
An article describes a new medical study about prayer: When devout "healers" prayed for the health of arthritic patients--without the patients' knowledge--the patients' health improved.
Christopher Columbus knew these streets, and he prayed at the Ermita de San Antonio Abad before setting off on his first Voyage of Discovery to the New World.
The Salle des Girondins displays a guillotine blade, the crucifix to which Marie-Antoinette prayed, and the lock used on Robespierre’s cell.