How to Use prayer book in a Sentence

prayer book

noun
  • The boys were given black rosaries and a prayer book, the girls the same, but their rosaries were white.
    — Rafael Alvarez, CNN, 27 Dec. 2020
  • The bald guy brings me a prayer book and a white yarmulke with golden embroidery.
    — Etgar Keret, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • Columba had passed me his prayer book and asked me to read Psalm 78.
    — Fred Bahnson, Harper's Magazine, 1 July 2022
  • In the chapel, beneath two Marys, on top of the hill, there was a prayer book full of prayers.
    — Sasha Debevec-McKenney, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Before anyone was awake, your mom was crying into her prayer book.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Neither man knew if anyone would be coming in for last-minute prayer books or anointing oil.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Prayers will projected on a screen so congregants don’t have to handle prayer books.
    — oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2020
  • This is a manuscript from our collection, a little prayer book.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • Books of Hours are breviaries, or a selection of prayers and psalms taken from long prayer books used by monks.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Yet consider the current political woes of those who still sing from this prayer book.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 3 May 2018
  • Mary received her prayer book shortly before her life took a series of dramatic turns.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2020
  • The prayer book, published monthly, runs a regular feature on Catholic saints.
    — Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Above the goat heads, a man’s elbow rests on the handle, holding a prayer book, in repentance, the wall text tells us, for their slaughter.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Officers found a prayer book that had been shredded on the ground at the synagogue and an open shed that contained bicycles.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 2 May 2021
  • As Christie’s announced last week, the queen’s personal prayer book will be sold at auction in late July.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2020
  • Riccardi led the team of women who worked tirelessly for 10 months to restore the sacred prayer book.
    — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • But she was soon replaced -- both as his wife and in her own prayer book, where her image and coat of arms were painted over and replaced with those of her successor.
    — Maev Kennedy, CNN, 19 May 2021
  • The first part of the evening will be devoted to elementary prayer book Hebrew instruction.
    — courant.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Rabbi Lewis Kamrass looks up from his prayer book and turns to the 250 empty chairs in his synagogue.
    — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
  • That prayer book influenced many other English-language Church services, so those phrases pop up all over the place.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 19 May 2018
  • Instead, Malachi, loyal to the ways of the Old World, keeps a prayer book in his pocket and wears a tallit under his shirt.
    — Hawa Allan, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The small fire at the Episcopal church in Pasadena was lit in the sanctuary, with pews, prayer books and hymnals used as kindling.
    — Brittny Mejia, latimes.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • At these services, a special prayer book for the High Holidays is read from and a Torah portion is read and discussed.
    — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 10 July 2020
  • The family had Paul’s old prayer book, which had a bullet hole in it, and his prisoner-of-war tag, written in German.
    — Alex Burness, The Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The owner’s son pointed out to curators that the man is not holding a prayer book, as written in some texts, but rather cradling a large flowerpot with a single red rose.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021
  • As the Financial Times notes, the prayer book is one of around 14 surviving manuscripts owned by the Scottish queen.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2020
  • Monks and nuns copied texts to produce Bibles and prayer books for worship, but also because writing was seen as a spiritual exercise.
    — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • More recently, the society received the writings and prayer books of the late Rabbi Shalom Singer.
    — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Aside from the recipes, Goetz said his favorite find so far has been a green wooden case, about the size of a shoebox, filled with tiny prayer books each about the size of a cigarette package.
    — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Sister Aletheia is currently working on a new prayer book for the Advent season, leading up to Christmas.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2021

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