How to Use prayer meeting in a Sentence

prayer meeting

noun

• But Gordon went to that spot on the South Side, anyway, for a recent prayer meeting.
  — Janice Neumann, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 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
• Nix and Britt’s prayer meeting was an especially nice moment for a worried mom.
  — Giana Han, al, 27 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Local churches called for mass prayer meetings in the days leading up to Wednesday’s planned legislative discussion of the extradition bill.
  — Alice Su, latimes.com, 14 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
• Toward the end of the online prayer meeting in September, Monster lamented the enormous amount of misinformation online.
  — Rob Kuznia, CNN, 9 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024