Sentence examples for litany on from inspiring English sources

Rogation Days, in the Roman Catholic church, festivals devoted to special prayers for the crops; they comprise the Major Rogation (Major Litany) on April 25 and the Minor Rogations Minor Litanyy) on the three days before Ascension Day (40th day after Easter).

This is the exotic-food litany on the lips of pilgrims who go to the Hilo Farmers Market, held twice a week on the lush eastern side of the Big Island.

The second woman seems to be starting to get it, but after listening to the litany of merchandise on offer on the Web site, she wonders what Soap.com has to do with soap operas.

Violence, bullying, self-harm and suicides are soaring; many young prisoners in particular lie idle behind their locked doors during the working day; there are reports of many elderly prisoners being unable to take a bath or shower for weeks or months on end – the litany of failures goes on and on.

Hertzberg goes on to tick off a litany of misperceptions on the part of the electorate, adding with his characteristic gentle understatement, "But why don't the American people know these things.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former Wall Street bailout watchdog Neil Barofsky blasted the banking industry on Friday for inflicting a litany of abuses on American homeowners, and issued a withering critique of the Obama administration for protecting those same banks at the expense of homeowners.

'If only Fulham played away from home as well as Paul Jewell,' joked one traveller, capturing the darkness of the visitors' litany of reverses on the road.

But way down on the litany of to-do is one particular item that many find as offputting as coal in a Christmas stocking: clean the house.

They serve on a litany of boards and work on new deals 10too 100 times larger than the seed deal they did in a moment of passion.

I Like The Way is a litany of suggestive come-ons delivered over an electro beat in the frankly depraved tradition of Serge Gainsbourg's Je t'aime and Lil' Louis's French Kiss.

There will be a lot of other people helping him achieve this personality shift: stylists, personal advisors, PRs, agents, party promoters, and a litany of dubious hangers-on.