Sentence examples for foot washing from inspiring English sources

Since only he knows how to catch fish, Giuseppe makes Amber wait on him hand and foot, washing his clothes, tenderizing octopus and filling his water bottle.

Photograph: Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images 12.20pm BST A Christian Orthodox woman holds a crucifix as the patriarch of Jerusalem, Theofilos III, performs the traditional foot washing ceremony outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

In this ritual nine young girls are dressed as the nine goddess aspects celebrated during Navratri and are worshiped with ritual foot washing and given offerings such as food and clothing.

That encounter led Gores to launch an organization — the New Haven PAWS Project (Poverty Alleviation through Washing Soles) — that provides monthly foot washing events at St. Paul & St. James Episcopal Church paired with giveaways of new socks, shoes from the nonprofit Soles for Souls, and other foot-related hygiene items, like gel insoles and nail clippers.

The Moravian ritual of pedalavium, or foot washing.

Foot washing was also practiced.

Only fleeting reminders exist in Mumbai today of its emergence from the sea – a preponderance of causeways; landlocked places with waterside names such as "creek" and "foot wash".

Analyzing ablution times revealed that largest water amount is used in feet washing and largest water amount is wasted during washings of face.

Water would surge 25 feet, washing over the sea wall and devastating the island.

The rat brought a piece of garbage cheese and dropped it at my feet, washing its grubby little rat hands like Lady Macbeth.

Though not considered an ordinance, some of the churches also engage in the practice of feet washing.