How to Use prayer rug in a Sentence

prayer rug

noun
  • At her Ridgewood house, Aspero draped purple and gold sheets in the shape of a tent in the den and placed blue and white pillows and a prayer rug on the ground.
    Hannan Adely, USA TODAY, 8 May 2020
  • Men, women and children entered, some with their own prayer rugs.
    Laura Gómez, azcentral, 15 June 2018
  • Colorful prayer rugs could be spotted from the distance.
    NBC News, 28 May 2020
  • The magic becomes a melancholy day-to-day thereafter, but the prophet, the locust, the peach pit and especially the father and prayer rug haunt every line.
    Kaveh Akbar, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Worshipers were asked to bring their own prayer rugs, but some mosques offered disposable paper rugs.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2020
  • What changes, what doesn't Friday afternoon, March 20 Hossam Musa stands in a balcony of sorts, looking out at more than a dozen empty prayer rugs.
    Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The room is laced with scented tobacco smoke from a shisha pipe stationed in the corner, and a small prayer rug is neatly folded under the television.
    Bronwen Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Those who wanted more calm spread their prayer rugs and mats on a drying barley field behind the camp and sat there, sipping coffee and tea they from thermos bottles.
    Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2018
  • On the altar are several symbolic items, including seven herbs, rose water, honey, coins, a copy of the Quran, a poetry book, and a prayer rug.
    Tacita Vero’, Slate Magazine, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Discourage sharing of items typically used in worship and services, like prayer books, cushions and prayer rugs.
    Trisha Thadani, SFChronicle.com, 25 May 2020
  • Small groups could be seen squaring off and shouting over corruption in the Pakistan government, its treatment of Afghans, and of Christians, while others unfurled prayer rugs and protest banners on the ground in preparation for an afternoon prayer.
    Caitlin Hu, CNN, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Abu Jama, an observant Muslim, knelt facing Mecca, his maroon and white prayer rug unfurled underneath him.
    Oren Liebermann and Michael Schwartz, CNN, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Those included closing access to bathrooms and water fountains, sanitizing the mosque’s carpet and requiring people to bring their own prayer rugs.
    Farah Eltohamy, azcentral, 29 May 2020
  • Several homes specify the availability of prayer rugs and distance from an Islamic center.
    Nikita Mandhani /, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2018
  • This exhibition will feature not only artifacts, including a jump rope autographed by Muhammad Ali and prayer beads and prayer rugs, but also interviews with Muslim Chicagoans.
    Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Police and security officers used broad pretexts to justify the detentions, including travelling abroad, having a beard, and owning a prayer rug.
    Ben Mauk, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The chapel in Charlotte, North Carolina, for example, has multiple religious texts alongside prayer rugs, rosary beads and artistically rendered quotes from the world’s major religions.
    Wendy Cadge, Smithsonian, 9 Jan. 2018

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