How to Use prayerful in a Sentence

prayerful

adjective

• They gave their prayerful support to the victims of the tragedy.
• When the shooting stops and the sirens fade, the precious, prayerful work begins.
  — Bob Greene, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Even the bunny feet on this little doll have prayerful eyes!
  — Woman's Day, 14 Feb. 2023
• This prayerful service may provide you a refuge of peace.
  — courant.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Cicely Tyson says she's been prayerful and patient throughout her career which has spanned more than six decades.
  — NBC News, 27 Apr. 2018
• Najee Ali, who organized the small vigil, said the prayerful gathering was meant to show unity.
  — latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And like its neighbor, Canada’s first thanksgivings tended to be prayerful affairs.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Typically, the public gatherings in the days following a mass shooting are solemn, prayerful events.
  — Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Traditional anthems and prayerful invocations were the order of the hour.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2021
• Randall calls for a prayerful moment, despite their not being religious.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 28 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For me, reciting the compunction statement became a prayerful reckoning with herself.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2024