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Example sentences for "genuflections"

Lexicographically close words:
gentylman; gentylmen; gentz; genu; genua; genuflexions; genug; genuine; genuinely; genuineness
  1. He made three hundred genuflections every day; and moreover recited the entire psaltery.

  2. The bell was to be the signal for the meal, but first there was a Pater with three genuflections in the church; then the meal was blessed.

  3. He was fond of meditation and watching and the scholiast in the Felire of AEngus tells us that he made three hundred genuflections by day and three hundred every night, so that his whole life was one continued prayer.

  4. With respectful salutes and genuflections the Daimio was allowed to pass.

  5. Suddenly she became aware of the richness of his attire as he took his place in the centre, amid the bows and genuflections of the spectators.

  6. There was a slow procession with trembling genuflections and much greedy kissing of the papal ring and slipper.

  7. He had to approach, and after making the three genuflections prescribed by etiquette, he stooped over one of the Pope's feet resting on a cushion in order to kiss the red velvet slipper.

  8. He felt out of place and somewhat ridiculous; he was conscious that he performed his genuflections and posturing awkwardly, and there were all these women watching him.

  9. The priest went to the switch-board, and, after a series of genuflections and the mumbling of what might have been an invocation, he turned a lever.

  10. Mammy Lou called us to breakfast just then, but I could eat only four soft-boiled guinea eggs, wondering what on earth Cassius had said in reply when Jean said genuflections to him.

  11. They were terrific words too, from aortic and actinic in the a's to genuflections in the g's.

  12. According to the tenets of Islam, if a worshipper were to perform his genuflections on the bare ground they would be of no effect, because the ground might certainly be assumed to be ceremonially polluted.

  13. The service was short, and was read slowly and distinctly, with many genuflections and obeisances of adoration.

  14. The prayers began with the sheik in the centre, and there were many prostrations, bows and genuflections before they were ended.


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