How to Use prayerful in a Sentence

prayerful

adjective
  • They gave their prayerful support to the victims of the tragedy.
  • When the shooting stops and the sirens fade, the precious, prayerful work begins.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021
  • As the beat ascends, Eazi sings the title phrase with prayerful gravitas.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Cicely Tyson says she's been prayerful and patient throughout her career which has spanned more than six decades.
    — NBC News, 27 Apr. 2018
  • See a beloved comedian and a prayerful pop star play together in a crass satire, and a rap star win our hearts in a holiday flick.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Taking a prayerful pause to affirm and feel God’s guiding love can bring inspiration and peace.
    — Moses Robi, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Randall calls for a prayerful moment, despite their not being religious.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Najee Ali, who organized the small vigil, said the prayerful gathering was meant to show unity.
    — latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2017
  • And like its neighbor, Canada’s first thanksgivings tended to be prayerful affairs.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The movements seem both neurotic and prayerful, less a mass act of containment than a mystical ritual.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Over more than a thousand years, this route has been followed by millions, who walk hundreds of kilometers in prayerful contemplation.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Catholic leaders and followers worldwide remain in prayerful vigil for the ailing pontiff.
    — Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Typically, the public gatherings in the days following a mass shooting are solemn, prayerful events.
    — Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2018
  • For me, reciting the compunction statement became a prayerful reckoning with herself.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 June 2022
  • Snoop Dogg, Wilson and other join a father in prayerful vigil for the recovery of his daughter who has overdosed on drugs.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2018
  • And despite the devastation, the prayerful vigils and the pleas for change, not a long time passes until another shooting occurs.
    — Helen Kwong, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • And despite the devastation, the prayerful vigils and the pleas for change, not a long time passes until another shooting occurs.
    — NBC news, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Traditional anthems and prayerful invocations were the order of the hour.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Decisions on how to strike this balance vary from institution to institution and from faith to faith, and those decisions may change over time as a result of prayerful study.
    — Thomas B. Griffith, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • This lifelong devaluation requires us to be resilient, prayerful and strong, while at the same time weathering our bodies and harming our mental health.
    — Essence, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Egypt and Israel signed the treaty ending 30 years of war as a first prayerful step toward peace between the Arab world and the Jewish state.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • That’s the prayerful explanation for the nonsense that spouted this week from the leaders of a football conference that hopes to grow up and be the Big Ten someday.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • While many individuals commenting on the post offered prayerful words and support for the child, some questioned its authenticity.
    — Ana Faguy, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Tigua dancers of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo performed a prayerful ceremony traditional before a hunt.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 June 2026
  • The Sagrada Família was founded as an expiatory church, meaning that it would be financed by prayerful donations from people atoning for their sins.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And gay men and women within the church and without it are caught in the vortex, tortured by it, prayerful sons and daughters and moms and dads and brothers and sisters, who are burdened believers, some of whom cannot carry the load.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Social media posts in prayerful support of the pontiff are matched by those wishing him to die, weighing in on the author’s preferred successor or deriding the entire concept of the papacy as a farce.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The decision to explore a potential sale of artwork was made after extensive and prayerful consideration, with the goal to have access to the proceeds quickly, to meet an urgent need.
    — Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
  • While not obviously less prayerful than their parents, young evangelicals, semi-freed from the culture wars, are also culturally more in step with the rest of America.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • As in the wake of those still-fresh tragedies, expressions of anger or heartbreak, of prayerful condolences or steely gun-control advocacy, were resounding across the country by late Wednesday morning.
    — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2022

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