How to Use prayerful in a Sentence
prayerful
adjective- They gave their prayerful support to the victims of the tragedy.
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When the shooting stops and the sirens fade, the precious, prayerful work begins.
—Bob Greene, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021
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It’s one thing to believe in God, to be prayerful, to be devout, to talk about that faith.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
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Even the bunny feet on this little doll have prayerful eyes!
—Woman's Day, 14 Feb. 2023
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This prayerful service may provide you a refuge of peace.
—courant.com, 6 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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Cicely Tyson says she's been prayerful and patient throughout her career which has spanned more than six decades.
—NBC News, 27 Apr. 2018
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Najee Ali, who organized the small vigil, said the prayerful gathering was meant to show unity.
—latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2017
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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
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The ceramic medallion was created in 1787 by Josiah Wedgwood, who designed a cameo of a Black man, kneeling, his hands clasped in a prayerful, pleading pose.
—New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
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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
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This time, his electric trumpet lines wove around Odom’s acoustic, prayerful alto sax playing: even more searching and heated.
—Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
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Remember the subway knitters in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, head down, stitching as if in prayerful meditation?
—New York Times, 13 May 2021
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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
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And like its neighbor, Canada’s first thanksgivings tended to be prayerful affairs.
—Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
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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
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Typically, the public gatherings in the days following a mass shooting are solemn, prayerful events.
—Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2018
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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
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Traditional anthems and prayerful invocations were the order of the hour.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2021
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Randall calls for a prayerful moment, despite their not being religious.
—Kate Aurthur, Variety, 28 Dec. 2021
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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
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On Friday, beginning at 9:45 a.m. outside the Hilton Indianapolis a prayerful rally will be held to support Meredith.
—Mark Curnutte, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2018
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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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For me, reciting the compunction statement became a prayerful reckoning with herself.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 June 2022
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People in the Middle Ages certainly understood certain things to be filthy or shameful, but such topics could also inspire prayerful reflection or be used to explain the error of a poor line of verse.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 4 May 2020
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Ogden Valley may be gone — the building razed and the surviving monks living out their days in a Salt Lake City senior center — but its spirit remains rooted in ground where the prayerful priests carved out an agricultural stronghold.
—Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
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Others have adopted a more reflective tone in their reactions, such as Pope Francis, who offered a prayerful message on Sunday afternoon.
—Carly Roman, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2021
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This track, by the pioneering but elusive singer-songwriter Connie Converse, is here whispered and prayerful, with the intimacy and elegance of an Ivesian parlor song.
—New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
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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
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