How to Use prayer book in a Sentence

prayer book

noun

• The boys were given black rosaries and a prayer book, the girls the same, but their rosaries were white.
  — Rafael Alvarez, CNN, 27 Dec. 2020
• In the chapel, beneath two Marys, on top of the hill, there was a prayer book full of prayers.
  — Sasha Debevec-McKenney, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2023
• Columba had passed me his prayer book and asked me to read Psalm 78.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harper's Magazine, 1 July 2022
• The bald guy brings me a prayer book and a white yarmulke with golden embroidery.
  — Etgar Keret, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• Students focus on learning the Hebrew of the prayer book.
  — Aurora Beacon-News, 29 Mar. 2018
• As the Financial Times notes, the prayer book is one of around 14 surviving manuscripts owned by the Scottish queen.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2020
• Books of Hours are breviaries, or a selection of prayers and psalms taken from long prayer books used by monks.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
• Each year, the youngest guests read from the family prayer book and there’s a toast to loved ones who have passed away, just like Tom promised his mother 19 years ago.
  — Betsy Cribb, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2020
• Rabbi Lewis Kamrass looks up from his prayer book and turns to the 250 empty chairs in his synagogue.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
• Above the goat heads, a man’s elbow rests on the handle, holding a prayer book, in repentance, the wall text tells us, for their slaughter.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2020
• Neither man knew if anyone would be coming in for last-minute prayer books or anointing oil.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2020
• At these services, a special prayer book for the High Holidays is read from and a Torah portion is read and discussed.
  — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 10 July 2020
• The small fire at the Episcopal church in Pasadena was lit in the sanctuary, with pews, prayer books and hymnals used as kindling.
  — Brittny Mejia, latimes.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• More recently, the society received the writings and prayer books of the late Rabbi Shalom Singer.
  — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• As Christie’s announced last week, the queen’s personal prayer book will be sold at auction in late July.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2020
• Inside the box, chapel members found a newspaper clipping from August 1893, when the church was built, as well as five coins and a prayer book or small Bible.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2019
• Prayers will projected on a screen so congregants don’t have to handle prayer books.
  — oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2020
• The prayer book, published monthly, runs a regular feature on Catholic saints.
  — Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2019
• Riccardi led the team of women who worked tirelessly for 10 months to restore the sacred prayer book.
  — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• The family had Paul’s old prayer book, which had a bullet hole in it, and his prisoner-of-war tag, written in German.
  — Alex Burness, The Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2019
• Aside from the recipes, Goetz said his favorite find so far has been a green wooden case, about the size of a shoebox, filled with tiny prayer books each about the size of a cigarette package.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2017
• Before anyone was awake, your mom was crying into her prayer book.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
• Officers found a prayer book that had been shredded on the ground at the synagogue and an open shed that contained bicycles.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 2 May 2021
• But she was soon replaced -- both as his wife and in her own prayer book, where her image and coat of arms were painted over and replaced with those of her successor.
  — Maev Kennedy, CNN, 19 May 2021
• Yet consider the current political woes of those who still sing from this prayer book.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 3 May 2018
• This is a manuscript from our collection, a little prayer book.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
• In half-empty pews, grandmothers in quilted jackets traced their fingers across the creased pages of their Chinese prayer books.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
• At the beginning of the service for Passover, found in the special prayer book just for this holiday called, the Haggadah, its customary for the youngest child to recite the four questions.
  — Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2020
• During the most recent excavation, according to Geggel, the team unearthed the front section of the bima, and a cellar that held a prayer book.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 July 2019
• During a seder, there is a prayer book called a Haggadah that includes the retelling of the Passover story as well as specific rituals to perform during the seder.
  — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 15 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024