(v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.
(v. t.) To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
(v. t.) To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
Example Sentences:
(1) People praying, voicing their views and heart, were met with disdain and a level of force exceeding what was needed.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child praying at the vigil site for Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
(3) I am being prayed for in the woods of northern California!
(4) When he had those Aids I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him.” Sterling said he admired Johnson, 53, as a “good” man, then contradicted himself.
(5) "I've been praying and praying to Papa," Nan cried, "but it feels like He isn't listening."
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Muslims pray at the Al Khalil mosque in Molenbeek.
(7) She comes to church with me; she doesn’t pray in the way I do, but she listens.
(8) They will whip you if you don’t pray.” In Damascus there is a new industry of “facilitators” who offer advice to Syrians who want to get out.
(9) A few metres away, Francisco-Javier Muñoz, a lawyer originally from Spain, was praying.
(10) Since the allegations became public, fans have taken to holding up homemade signs at Florida State games: "We Support Famous Jameis", "Jameis is Innocent," and "In Jameis Christ We Pray".
(11) New Afghan national police officers pray during their graduation ceremony.
(12) The NYPD's demographics unit assembled databases on where Muslims lived, shopped, worked and prayed.
(13) I squeezed my eyes shut and prayed for an electromagnetic storm that would cancel out every mistake I'd ever made.'
(14) As she gazes down from her plane at the sprawling Amazon jungle below, she will hope and pray that, with a number of giant infrastructure projects planned in the region, history is not about to repeat itself.
(15) The Palestinians see this as Jewish encroachment on the site, the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, while Jewish activists like Glick say they are being discriminated against by limiting their chances to pray atop the mount.
(16) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(17) It stands 25km north of Damascus, near the ancient Saydnaya monastery where Christians and Muslims have prayed together for centuries.
(18) My mother prays for me,” said Betancourt, a Honduran.
(19) Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one | Barney Ronay Read more City continue to monitor Messi’s situation should he become unsettled.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A woman prays in front of the Flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Tokyo, a memorial for the victims of the atomic bombings in 1945.
Supernatural
Definition:
(a.) Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(3) There was no relationship between psychoses and supernatural belief types.
(4) Due to the supernatural aura surrounding mental disease, the lack of a sufficient biological basis, and the capacity to reduce civil rights of individuals, psychiatry occupies a special position among the medical disciplines.
(5) He added that the Halloween challenge will become an annual event for psychics and others who claim supernatural abilities.
(6) Their focus on supernatural faith – on healing and speaking in tongues – is shared with LoveBristol, but E 5 put less emphasis on woolly jumpers and green politics and more on slick online videos and social media .
(7) He has described it as "a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones", saying that, "a visceral sceptic such as Kubrick just couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel."
(8) But Thorne’s working life has been spent subverting genres, through his Bafta-winning work on supernatural thriller The Fades and Shane Meadows’s bleak, beautiful coming-of-age miniseries This Is England ’86 and ’88.
(9) It’s thoroughly appropriate that the last large-scale piece he completed was a community and children’s opera, The Hogboon, which will receive its first performance at the Barbican in London in June ; it’s based on an Orkney legend of supernatural beings who inhabit the prehistoric burial mounds that are found all over the islands, and who are entirely benign.
(10) The most relevant results were: the taxonomic determination of 237 vegetal species from which 399 curative products are obtained, in order to combat 57 illnesses, the most frequent of which are those related to the digestive system, the skin, the reproductive system and those of supernatural origin, which can only be treated by the use of plants in special ceremonies known as 'limpias', due to their peculiar condition.
(11) Analysis of the relationship of AIDS to traditional beliefs revealed that AIDS had been integrated into the traditional conceptualization of illness, health practices, and healing, and was attributed to both natural and supernatural causes.
(12) Multi-dimensional scaling analysis shows four clusters of mental distress: a) stress; b) western physiological; c) nonwestern physiological; and d) supernatural.
(13) The Queen is bonded to her country and people by supernatural compact.
(14) Herein lies the danger: it is in the interests of both western powers and Isis to grant this bunch of terrorists an almost supernatural horror.
(15) The movie might not have continued to inspire this level of devotion without its central, unanswerable mystery about the cause of the time loop; other Hollywood fantasies provide explanations for their supernatural events.
(16) Illness and the supernatural world are linked by the concepts of ghosts and Fever, the latter an index of ghost illness, deriving from a supernatural being.
(17) He designed a leaflet titled “Look After Yourself” pointing out clues that might distinguish between a person with supernatural powers and a person who “just appears to have them”.
(18) Illustrated by artists including Breno Tamura, Matt Rosenberg and Gus Storms, it's a supernatural-tinged tale of Mafia intrigue in which the soul of a murdered gangster, Tony Starks (Ghostface's regular alter ego), is bound up in 12 pieces of mystical vinyl.
(19) Breaking Bad and House of Cards are up against two subtitled series, BBC4's Danish political drama import Borgen and The Returned, the French supernatural thriller broadcast by Channel 4, for the international Bafta.
(20) BBC4's documentary about the supernatural on TV, Ghosts in the Machine, was watched by 304,000 between 9pm and 10pm.