rosary

Example Sentences

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A toddler sat on her mother’s lap, clutching a rosary.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

The rosary presupposes our boredom, propensity to distraction, and impatience with dull routine and attempts to transmute these failings into the virtues of faith, hope and charity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

He liked to go into nature and pray with them the way some people pray with a rosary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Dressed in white and with a rosary hanging from her car's rear-view mirror, she drove through the city but became trapped in traffic.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

She hurried her sign of the cross and kissed the crucifix on her rosary.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez