English vocabulary examples in context: ablution
Vocabulary in context: ablution -- Example 1.
Elephants were bathing in the waters of the sacred river, and groups of Indians, despite the advanced season and chilly air, were performing solemnly their pious ablutions.
Vocabulary in context: ablution -- Example 2.
She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and body, her prayers and her toilet.
Vocabulary in context: ablution -- Example 3.
The sun tanned his light shoulders by the banks of the river when bathing, performing the sacred ablutions, the sacred offerings.
Vocabulary in context: ablution -- Example 4.
The ablutions were good, but they were water, they did not wash off the sin, they did not heal the spirit's thirst, they did not relieve the fear in his heart.
Vocabulary in context: ablution -- Example 5.
The evening had come, it was time to perform the evening's ablution.
Vocabulary in context: ablution -- Example 6.
But for me it is time to go to the river and to perform the first ablution.
Vocabulary in context: ablution -- Example 7.
He had heard a voice, a voice in his own heart, which had commanded him to seek rest under this tree, and he had neither preferred self-castigation, offerings, ablutions, nor prayer, neither food nor drink, neither sleep nor dream, he had obeyed the voice.
Vocabulary in context: ablution -- Example 8.
We caught a glimpse of the handsome tessellated pavements within and of the devotees performing their ablutions at the fountains, but even that we took that glimpse was a thing not relished by the Moorish bystanders.
Vocabulary in context: ablution -- Example 9.
The Moor goes to his mosque about noon on his Sabbath, as on any other day, removes his shoes at the door, performs his ablutions, makes his salaams, pressing his forehead to the pavement time and again, says his prayers, and goes back to his work.
