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Example sentences for: prayed

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I wondered if there was anything else I might pray for, and I thought I would like to have some money, so I prayed that I would make a lot of money, and then I started to think how I would make it, and thinking of money reminded me of the count, and I started wondering about where he was, and regretting I hadn't seen him since that night in Montmartre, and about something funny Brett told me about him.
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.
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.
Oklahomans have prayed for divine intervention to no avail.
The Times's "Arts & Leisure" section caricatures the carnival-like scene: Protesting Catholics prayed and handed out vomit bags.