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Example sentences for: praying

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Locals are always on hand, burning incense and praying for good fortune.
"As you progress down the evil path, you have to do things that are more and more distasteful, from blasphemy to striking a praying angel.
Conservative Jews praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall were doused with saliva, trash, and feces--by Orthodox Jews.
I do get tired of Bradley's praying hands, and I have no opinion on his tax plan--or, for that matter, on anybody's tax plan--but I admit to joining the dreaded media consensus that he and McCain generate less pain for me, just as public personalities, than the rest of the herd.
But sainthood, I learned soon enough, is a fateWorse than life, nights on call for the demonsIn a vomiting lamb, a dry breast, a broken radio,And days spent parroting the timeless adages,Spent arbitrating water rights, property lines,Or feuds between rival herdsmen over scrub brush,Spent blessing every bride and anyone's big-belliedFourth or fifth wife, praying that they deliver sons.I thought back to the time, not ten feet from him,I heard a homily delivered by old John XXIII,Sounding wholly seraphic in his murmured Italian.