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prayerlike

a. Resembling a prayer.

Usage examples of "prayerlike".

Putting her hands together in a prayerlike attitude, the witch raised them to her forehead, then drew them down before her face, continuing downward.

He sat for a moment with his palms pressed together in a prayerlike attitude, forefingers lightly touching his lips.

She dropped to her knees, putting her hands together in a prayerlike plea for mercy.

And then Katherine is ahead of him, with her hands clutched and folded, prayerlike, against her throat, under her chin.

Tassay added, folding her slender hands almost prayerlike in front of her.

He put his palms together in a prayerlike gesture and brought them to his face, the thumbs under his chin and the forefingers touching his lips.

He drew away enough to meet her gaze, and as he spoke, he pressed her hands in prayerlike fashion between his palms.

He paused, splaying his fingers and touching the tips together in a prayerlike fashion.

Charmaine lay on one side with her hands folded together prayerlike under one cheek.

There was a moment of prayerlike silence on the bridge as that fact was absorbed.

Amanda answered, offering another radiant smile and placing her hands prayerlike under her chin.

She had a rueful smile, and she pressed her hands together prayerlike, pleased.

This was a complete figure, squatting with its hands in a prayerlike position.

Broyles pressed his hands together, adopting a prayerlike pose, and, damn it, it was moving.

He closed his eyes as he whispered the prayerlike words over and over.