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Example sentences for: praying

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The paintings usually depict an event survived or celebrated, an illness, an operation, imprisonment, or having received a passport to the United States, or they may depict a person praying to the saint.
For example, you might, after observing the natural behavior of praying mantises, be tempted to conclude that it is morally good for females to eat males after sex--and this, I submit, would be a repugnant and wrongheaded doctrine!
While Corot was drawn to the contemplative and even the monastic life (he painted a peculiar series devoted to monks reading, playing the cello, and praying), he was by no means immune to feminine charm.
Three hundred dollars pays for one-ninth of a hardwood casket with your choice of wheat, cross, praying hands, Masonic, or U.S. flag panels from the John W. Keffer Funeral Home in York, Pa.
Flanking the steps leading to the courtyard and standing on statues of tortoises are two bronze elephants with praying riders on their backs.