How to Use ablution in a Sentence

ablution

noun

• The ablution area covered by blue tiles clearly shows the past presence of a mosque.
  — Alessandra Cappelletti, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2021
• A pair of washing or ablution fountains in the courtyard still stand, but are shot through and through.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
• The mosque used to cover an area of almost 2,000 square meters, with a main hall, a guest hall, and ablution room.
  — Alessandra Cappelletti, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2021
• Holds have in the past been designed as cabin crew rest areas and for ablutions.
  — Benjamin D Katz, Bloomberg.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• We were trapped in time, in the commodification of flesh, saints without the gift of ablution.
  — Romeo Oriogun, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• The title track, written by Rose Cousins as a torch song, is rendered here as a plea for collective ablution.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• Baths were rare, as was washing of hands and feet, equated with Islamic ablution.
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2018
• The first, rudimentary, covered the basics of prayer and ablutions.
  — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
• The holiday falls during the hottest part of the year in Thailand, so the water is not only a symbol of ablution but also welcome relief from the heat.
  — al, 13 Apr. 2021
• Also on the board was a step-by-step guide to ablution before prayer, with a drawing of a human figure with arrows to illustrate which body parts to wash.
  — Maria Abi-Habib, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2016
• When a Dallas nurse was diagnosed with Ebola in 2014, area churchgoers added ablutions to their handshakes of peace.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2020
• It is smoked after everything else is done with: the evening meal, TV, reading in bed, bathroom ablutions, everything except brushing my teeth.
  — Longreads, 14 Oct. 2017
• With ritual precision, the vestals awaken their miserable charges each dawn and roll them about on their beds of pain while performing ablutions, in the formal movements of which the maidens are highly trained.
  — Gabriel Winant, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
• Two people can easily go about their daily ablutions, or get ready for a night on the town—and in Las Vegas, that is no simple exercise—without crawling over each other to get in front of a mirror.
  — Hannah Rense, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• Communal taps, shared ablution facilities and open sewerage have been a health risk for decades; causing disease and diseases.
  — Norma Young, Quartz Africa, 24 Mar. 2020
• At another, wells and an 8-foot-tall stone basin believed to have been used for ablution by pilgrims coming to give tribute to a pantheon of gods suggest an advanced water management system.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2020
• In Chicago, at the headquarters of Gogo, the in-flight internet provider, a prayer and wellness room is outfitted with an ablution station that can be used by Muslims who practice foot washing before praying.
  — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
• But large mosques can consist of multiple buildings, sometimes only several yards apart, and are used for wedding parties, ablutions or as residences for local clerics.
  — Michael R. Gordon and Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• The primary bathroom and half-bathrooms offer ablution stations replicated from what is traditionally found in mosques.
  — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2020
• Every Moroccan village centers on a fountain for ablutions before Islamic prayer.
  — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
• Many stepwells were used for ablution; the tanks associated with mosques, Hindu temples and other shrines offered the most purificatory form. Summoning water from the depths was also a symbol of temporal power.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2019
• Muslims perform wudu, ritual ablutions, before praying.
  — Jaimal Yogis, The Atlantic, 23 July 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024