Sentence examples for prayers sound from inspiring English sources

Even his prayers sound like letters to God.

To the uneducated ear, their prayers sounded like Buddhist sutras, even though they contained a mixture of Latin, Portuguese and obscure Japanese dialects.

Five times a day, the muezzins' calls to prayer sound from the minarets of the 135-year-old Darul Uloom seminary that is famed throughout the Islamic world and teaches the form of Islam known as Deobandism.

At dusk, a call to prayer sounded from the Koutoubia Mosque's landmark minaret.

The sheikh and Kiki were still separated by ten pounds when the second call to prayer sounded.

The call to prayer sounds and a serious-looking man with a bushy beard stares intently at the camera.

When the evening call to prayer sounded at dusk, Mr al-Rawi was taken out of the cell.

The call to prayer sounds over loudspeakers five times a day, and in each cell a spray-painted arrow points toward Mecca.

The transliterated words "for all generations" in the psalm's Hebrew original are "l'do'or v'do'or," which, when recited aloud by the prayer, sounds like "door to door".

I recall remarking to my father one Sunday – while still young enough that my mother carried a bag filled with toys to keep me occupied and quiet – that the droning recitations of prayer sounded almost zombie-like.

As dusk arrived in the city last Saturday and the call to prayer sounded from local mosques, a young Afghan madrassa student in a turban demanded that a visiting American leave the area.