How to Use prayer shawl in a Sentence

prayer shawl

noun
  • Many of those present had never seen a yarmulke and prayer shawl.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Becky draped a crocheted prayer shawl around her sister’s shoulders and smoothed Edith's hair away from her face.
    — Freep.com, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Some attendees took turns cradling the scroll and carrying it beneath a tallit, or prayer shawl.
    — Rachel Román, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Lakanwal appeared in court wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and a white prayer shawl.
    — Rachel Wolf , Jake Gibson, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Men in tallisim — the prayer shawls observant Jews wear — came up and danced with him in a circle around the Torah.
    — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
  • His most popular TikTok videos are on subjects such as how to put on a prayer shawl or hang up a mezuzah.
    — Ingrid Ahlgren, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2023
  • His first stop was Gandhi's home, where Trump donned a prayer shawl and removed his shoes to walk through the humble ashram.
    — Jill Colvin, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Mintz, a religious Jew, stood facing Jerusalem, his white and black prayer shawl hanging off his shoulders.
    — Oren Liebermann and Michael Schwartz, CNN, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Her father, who carried tefillin and a prayer shawl, was immediately sent to the gas chambers.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2022
  • His father’s tallit, the prayer shawl that some families also use as a covering in their children’s weddings.
    — Washington Post, 14 July 2021
  • That at times gives them the distasteful task of wrestling with demonstrators clad in prayer shawls, or facing down children who shout imprecations at them.
    — Noga Tarnopolsky, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Rabbi Goldstein, who was shot in the hands and lost his right index finger, wrapped his bloody wounds in a prayer shawl and rallied his congregation outside.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2019
  • Audrey Glickman, 66, hid in a storage room filled with laundry bags and covered herself with a prayer shawl during the attack.
    — David Nakamura The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Its collection includes letters, diaries, photos and religious items, like a frayed prayer shawl worn secretly by a prisoner at Auschwitz.
    — Karen Matthews, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Folding chairs, blankets, prayer shawls and prayer beads were also on offer — everything needed for iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast, at Al Aqsa Mosque.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Brad Gross sat on the couch in his Fisherville, Kentucky, home and could feel the weight of his grandfather’s tallit — a Jewish prayer shawl — hanging around his neck.
    — Andre Toran, The Courier-Journal, 25 Mar. 2021
  • They have been evacuated from the temple and are resting in the empty upstairs bedroom of a congregant in Nevada, covered by a traditional white and blue tallit, or prayer shawl.
    — Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Kerr had been visiting her mom to pick up prayer shawls to give to her patients at the ICU as a way to ease the pain of being at the hospital alone due to the hospital's visitor restrictions.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 12 Apr. 2020
  • Popular images of Jewish men worshiping at the wall in prayer shawls and phylacteries show only a small stretch of the ancient retaining wall for the Temple Mount.
    — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
  • At a campaign rally in October, a huge screen with the image of a man wearing a Jewish prayer shawl and blowing a shofar suddenly illuminated the stadium.
    — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The Prayer Shawl Ministry, for anyone who enjoys knitting or crocheting, is looking for folks who enjoy making prayer shawls and squares, baby blankets and hats to minister to others.
    — Carin Schoppmeyer, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2025
  • There were little touches — my grandfather’s prayer shawl on our shoulders, my Great-Uncle Josef’s shawl on the top of our chuppah — to remind us of our ancestors, many of whom had suffered terribly.
    — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
  • In addition to plowing and harvesting, buying and selling, cooking by kindling a fire, writing and other obvious kinds of employment, carrying any object outside the home — keys, books, prayer shawls, canes or even babies — is forbidden.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • As of now, visitors to the Wall are funneled into its northern plaza, where the Orthodox leadership forbids the commingling of men and women, and doesn’t allow women to use materials like Torah scrolls and prayer shawls.
    — Abraham Riesman, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Apr. 2018

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