rosary

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

One visitor touched her rosary beads on the case.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 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

The contrast with the rosary couldn’t be starker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

I realized then that Jaja had been tapping his feet to the beat of an Igbo song that Aunty Ifeoma and my cousins sang at evening rosary.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie