Example sentences for: prayed

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

  • This from Reuters: "Druids danced, Muslims prayed, Hindus bathed, and Europeans stopped work and took to the streets as an eerie twilight followed by darkness covered their capitals at about noon."

  • He prayed with his housemate each morning at 5:00 A.M. and attended services at the Islamic Center.

  • 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.

  • Just across rue St-Jacques stands the exquisite 13th- to 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic church of St-Séverin, in which Dante is said to have prayed and Saint-Saëns asked to be made honorary organist.

  • He admits that he "might have exaggerated Nixon's spirituality" in his own mind; says he prayed with George Bush the eve of the Gulf War and with Nancy Reagan the day after her husband was shot; and describes chastising Nancy Reagan for consulting an astrologer: "I urged her to seek guidance from the Lord instead."


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