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Example sentences for "ablutions"

Lexicographically close words:
able; abler; ablest; abloom; ablution; ably; abnegating; abnegation; abnormal; abnormalities
  1. And now, O Salaam, as the night draws towards dawn, it will be well if you perform your morning ablutions and devotions and prepare to lead us forth.

  2. He had just completed his morning devotions and ablutions at a little spring when the others roused themselves.

  3. Too many lives have been sacrificed by suppressing the monthly flux; external ablutions should be plentiful, but only sufficient, as in the case of boys, for cleanliness.

  4. Of course, ablutions of the external organs are perfectly right and proper and should be resorted to daily.

  5. Ablutions are a necessary preliminary to the obligatory prayers, at least three times a day, but if one wishes to make other prayers at night, he need not get out of bed to perform the ablutions.

  6. During the ablutions certain petitions are prescribed as "while washing the hands, say," etc.

  7. Now Almighty Allah had subjected to him a cloud which travelled with him wherever he went, and poured on him its water-treasures in abundance that he might make his ablutions and drink.

  8. The purifications and ceremonious ablutions of the Jews originated this command; and the early Christians did very unwisely in not making the bath obligatory.

  9. Then the merchant rose and went to the cow-house, to make his ablutions and pray, intending after to return and disclose his secret and die.

  10. Then he made his ablutions and prayed the prayers of sundown and nightfall, after which he sat down on the couch, to read[FN#23] the Koran.

  11. Nothing, indeed, can be more obvious to an enlightened and reflecting mind, than the indispensable necessity of frequent ablutions of the body in some form or other.

  12. Ablutions and Rubbing with Iced-Water or Snow 61 87.

  13. You Hindoos are as particular about your morning ablutions as we Moslems are.

  14. Entering the garden by the private door, Abbas Khan performed his ablutions at the little fountain, whose cool, sparkling water refreshed him.

  15. When rosy dawn next lit the eastern sky, And morning's grateful coolness filled the air, The master rose and his ablutions made.

  16. They had a series of ablutions and lustrations supposed to restore original innocence to the mystic.

  17. But the sacred feasts and purifying ablutions connected with the same spiritual hopes are found in other Oriental cults, and the magnificent suggestive ritual of the Egyptian clergy certainly was more impressive than that of the magi.

  18. In order to wipe out the blemish, he had recourse to ablutions and other ceremonies known to the priests.

  19. This is probably true, so far as a multiplicity of ablutions can make them.

  20. In this they are a contrast to the Brahmans, and to some other high-class Hindus, whose ceremonial ablutions are many.

  21. It is this frequency of contaminating and polluting contingencies in the life of the Brahman which requires of him so many ablutions daily, and which renders him perhaps the cleanest in person among the sons of men.

  22. After a short repose, the Moslems performed their ablutions with sand instead of water; and the morning prayer was recited by Caled before they mounted on horseback.

  23. His wife, sons, and dog made their ablutions in turn, while the Shanghai hens and a pet magpie had doubtless rinsed their fowl beaks in it.

  24. When they had finished their dry ablutions they looked like negroes who had been hit with a bag of flour.

  25. There men, women and children, perform their ablutions together, with all the apparent innocency of our first parents.

  26. All Japanese perform their ablutions once or twice a-day; for which purpose the poorer classes resort to the bath-houses, which are generally open to the road or street.

  27. The frequency of these ablutions he considered conducive to health.

  28. While performing for him the long and painful ablutions which his condition required, Mrs. Paisley was astonished at his patience.

  29. In performing their ablutions they went into the water and allowed their old clothes to be carried away by the stream, by which means they supposed their impurities removed.

  30. After this the head of the family anointed the threshold with the same paste, and left it there as a token that the inmates of the house had performed their ablutions and cleansed their bodies.

  31. They likewise pray very rarely, and only perform their ablutions when they find water.

  32. Be clean, and perform your ablutions before mounting your horse, and the Prophet will love you.

  33. I happened, when at Nasik, to see the latter whilst he was performing his ablutions in front of the Government building in which he was confined.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ablutions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.