PRAY in a Sentence

Learn PRAY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
220 example sentences for PRAY, such as:
1. Once on shore, we pray no more.
2. She knelt by the bed and prayed.
3. I will pray to God for your safety.
4. We prayed and did penance together.
5. And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PRAY
pray
 v.  address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer
 v.  call upon in supplication; entreat
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  We can only pray, she added, and fingered her crucifix.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  I shall not associate him in our conversation with your intimacy and encouragement; pray do not persist in connecting him with mine.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
3  I pray thee, uncle," answered the Jester, "let my folly, for once, protect my roguery.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  And now, sirs," said Prince John, who began to be warmed with the wine which he had drank, "having done justice to our Saxon guests, we will pray of them some requital to our courtesy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  And I pray you, good Christian brother," replied the anchorite, "to disturb me no more.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  Sir Sluggish Knight," replied the Clerk, "these are dangerous words, and I pray you to forbear them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  It is not for myself that I pray this favour," said Rebecca; "nor is it even for that poor old man.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  I pray you, Sir Knight," said Rowena, "to cease a language so commonly used by strolling minstrels, that it becomes not the mouth of knights or nobles.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  Benedicite, Sir Templar," replied De Bracy, "pray you to keep better rule with your tongue when I am the theme of it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  I pray thee be more conformable in this matter of my ransom.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  I pray of your reverence to remember that I force my monies upon no one.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  Well, my Lady, I only hope and pray you may.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
14  They treasure up every one of your pictures in the illustrated papers, and probably pray for you every night.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
15  In vain was her "Pray, sir, don't; pray, Mr. Crawford," repeated twice over; and in vain did she try to move away.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence:
1  Once on shore, we pray no more.
2  She had decided she must go on as usual, follow her normal routine, and hope and pray.
3  I will pray to God for your safety.
4  In times of difficulty, she pray for an oracle to guide her
5  "That proves you have a wicked heart; and you must pray to God to change it: to give you a new and clean one: to take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."
6  My family and I will be praying along with Rick that God will again bless your country.
7  She knelt by the bed and prayed.
8  We prayed and did penance together.
9  He thought if he prayed hard enough God might eventually listen.
10  Where he is described as a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave charity to the people, and prayed continually to God.