How to Use devotional in a Sentence

devotional

adjective

• The man then sings in devotional song about the Prophet Muhammad in the video.
  — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2020
• Most of the medieval manuscripts are books of hours — Christian devotional books used to pray at certain hours.
  — oregonlive, 14 May 2022
• Training her kids in the word of God through daily devotional readings and church.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 3 May 2022
• The devotional and pageant broadcast can be viewed at broadcasts.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 July 2021
• Ryan Gabriel’s devotional speech was the first from a Black faculty member in 14 years.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• His mother, when not marching for equal rights, played a lot of Qawwali, a genre of Sufi devotional music.
  — Priyanka Mattoo, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• But the tiny green alien the internet loves to love might be the only Star Wars creature with its own devotional candle on Amazon.
  — Wired, 4 Dec. 2019
• One of the best ways to find comfort and remember God is near is to make reading devotional books part of our daily routines.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Woman's Day, 21 Dec. 2022
• At this point, the thirst for Overwatch is self-sustaining, even devotional.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2023
• In the devotional part of each class, the girls learn how not to bully: don't trick someone into sharing a secret and then spread it on social media.
  — Beth Thames, AL.com, 14 June 2017
• Text her morning devotional verse to sisters and friends, maybe do some homework.
  — Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com, 12 May 2017
• David was also reputed to be a talented harpist and the author of many psalms, or devotional songs.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• But Bhumibol, who spent much of his early life in the West, opted to be put in a coffin, with the royal urn placed next to it for devotional purposes.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
• Yet there’s another kind of Shatner fan, less devotional and more amused.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• No list that small—from devotional works, portraits and still lifes to genre paintings and landscapes—could fulfill the ambition of that title.
  — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 3 July 2018
• The evening before, Singh’s friends and loved ones embraced each other, wept and sung beautiful Sikh devotional songs in a sorrowful tone in a chapel hall in Union City.
  — Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2021
• The aim was to downplay the more explicitly devotional parts, like the chanting of the suttas, in favour of the meditative element.
  — The Economist, 29 Nov. 2019
• So for the benefit of everyone who has to work with MRI, here is a devotional litany which might just keep your scanner from getting wrathful at the crucial moment.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2010
• As Mushtaq spoke sitting outside his home, the sounds of religious hymns and devotional songs floated from the loudspeakers of a Hindu temple on top of a hill.
  — Aijaz Hussain, ajc, 28 Feb. 2023
• Politicos of all stripes are styled as saints and stamped onto novelty devotional prayer candles.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• But four minutes in, the synth surges to the front, and then again a few minutes later, cresting in an ecstatic dirge reminiscent of Coltrane’s great devotional music.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
• If such a thing as a devotional folkloric genre painting could exist, this might be its textbook example.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• During the raid, officers found knives, a machete, a crossbow, bayonets, and Nazi devotional objects such as swastikas and flags.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 2 Dec. 2020
• The person might not especially bring up their AI Ethics devotional mission when going through the hiring process.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• Both pray the rosary daily, and Joe Borak wears a devotional scapular, similar to a necklace with religious text or pictures on both ends.
  — Kristin E. Holmes, Philly.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Wentz and several teammates even created a devotional video series for the Bible app.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2018
• Over time, the orchestra takes charge, and, about halfway through, a swell of strings washes over everything, calling to mind Alice Coltrane’s swirling, devotional music.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• Rossetti, a devout Anglican and the author of a number of devotional poems, was among them.
  — Maura Ives, The Conversation, 20 Dec. 2022
• So, Foles locked himself away and concluded his daily devotional time with a lengthy journal entry.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
• In their place came hermits, lured by Kulen’s sanctity, who lived in small groups, taught meditation to the pilgrims who followed them, and fashioned caves and devotional sites from the mountain landscape.
  — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024