How to Use prayer meeting in a Sentence

prayer meeting

noun
  • White talked about her prayer meetings in the prison.
    — Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Him, my mother, and the headmaster, kinda like a prayer meeting.
    — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Christian groups held open-air prayer meetings while a circus chimpanzee strolled the streets wearing a suit and swinging a cane.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Then, at a 2007 prayer meeting, the spirit moved Trewhella to do more.
    — ProPublica, 10 July 2024
  • Nix and Britt’s prayer meeting was an especially nice moment for a worried mom.
    — Giana Han, al, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Malaysian health officials are scrambling to track down the thousands of men who were at the prayer meeting to test and quarantine them.
    — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2020
  • But Gordon went to that spot on the South Side, anyway, for a recent prayer meeting.
    — Janice Neumann, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • And early in its evolution, the Y was a place where young men came, again, through Bible studies and prayer meetings and things of that nature.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Or perhaps the motivating number is nine, which accounts for those who were shot in Charleston during a prayer meeting.
    — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
  • On March 1, three days after Russian troops took control, a few hundred people gathered in a central square for a prayer meeting.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
  • In reality, this coach was holding overt post-game prayer meetings on the 50-yard line, ones that an atheist player felt compelled to attend to keep off the bench.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 10 July 2024
  • The family attended sabbath services, prayer meetings, and group dinners where Stair would go on hours-long diatribes.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
  • More than two dozen women, gathering for a weekly prayer meeting that predated the outbreak, sang Christian hymns in a hospital ward.
    — John Eligon, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The shooting, carried out as students gathered for a prayer meeting before school, ended when Carneal put down his weapon and the principal walked him to the school office.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2022
  • And in July, more than 100 people were killed and many injured during a prayer meeting organized by a local guru.
    — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The pastor was reportedly holding a prayer meeting with around 30 people, including his wife and six kids, when the kidnappers stormed the church.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
  • This demonstration was more like a prayer meeting than a political rally, despite the presence of many local political figures.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 7 June 2020
  • Many of the scores killed had fallen into an open sewer near a large prayer meeting, known as a satsang, in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 3 July 2024
  • The pastor and eight members of the congregation were murdered immediately following a prayer meeting which the killer had attended with them.
    — Time, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Toward the end of the online prayer meeting in September, Monster lamented the enormous amount of misinformation online.
    — Rob Kuznia, CNN, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Esperanza makes an altar on the vanity and prepares the space for chanting, a prayer meeting but more unapologetic, ritualistic and communal.
    — Celina Pereira, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Gandhi’s last plea, after receiving three bullets from close range during his morning prayer meeting, was to the same deity that the Hindu right would later rally around at Ayodhya.
    — Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • This was far from the prayer meetings of our life in Waterloo, an example of how healing from trauma tends to threaten a kind of estrangement from one’s roots that makes even the most resilient souls reluctant to overcome themselves.
    — Harmonyholiday, Longreads, 6 June 2019
  • At high noon throughout the world, hundreds of others — people probably much like those gathered in San Antonio — were part of a virtual 24-hour global prayer meeting.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • A couple dozen paddlefish huddle together in a five-gallon jug with their translucent paddles raised heavenward, looking like congregants at an extraterrestrial prayer meeting.
    — Richard Conniff, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • While Saunders worked for Aurora, the owner allegedly took attendance at the prayer meetings and reprimanded employees for not attending.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Inscribed on the arches outside the city of Philippi was a prohibition against bringing unrecognized religion into the city, therefore, this prayer meeting was held outside the city, beside the river.
    — Debra Draper, Houston Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The protest and prayer meeting was slated to be held by conservative Catholic news outlet Church Militant during the conference meeting in mid-November.
    — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Although no one disputes that the February gathering accelerated the outbreak, the virus was probably circulating in the region, Alsace, weeks before the prayer meeting began and months before the French government banned events in March.
    — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The Pope will participate in a prayer meeting for national reconciliation Friday in Villavicencio with some 6,000 victims of violence, former fighters and militia.
    — Delia Gallagher, CNN, 5 Sep. 2017

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