Sample Sentences forablution (editor-reviewed)
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The ceremony required each participant to complete a brief ablution at the stone basin before entering the temple.ablution = ritual washing of the body
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After three days camping in the wilderness, her morning ablutions in the icy stream were brief but necessaryablutions = personal cleansing or bathing
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The surgeon completed his ablutions at the sterile sink, scrubbing methodically for the required ten minutes before entering the operating room.ablutions = thorough washing or cleansing
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When I was done with my morning ablutions and dressed in clean clothes from the camp store—sneakers, jeans, an orange Camp Half-Blood T-shirt, and a comfy winter coat of flannel wool—I felt almost optimistic. (source)ablutions = washing up and getting ready
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He told people the correct way to do their ablutions for prayers—which body part to wash first. (source)ablutions = ritual washings
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The me who is lying on the edge of the road, my leg hanging down into the gulley, is surrounded by a team of men and women who are performing frantic ablutions over me and plugging my veins with I do not know what. (source)ablutions = washing and cleaning
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Eragon went to the wash closet and performed his morning ablutions, including removing the stubble from his cheeks with a spell. (source)ablutions = washing up and getting ready
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My momma had to iron forty pounds of clothes to make four dollars, so we were probably the last family on Roy Webb Road to experience the joy of twentieth-century ablution.† (source)
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Home for nineteen hours and you've already indulged your predilection for ablutionary excesses, hah!† (source)
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A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of Jake's cowlick.† (source)
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Mr. Darcy may perhaps have heard of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he would hardly think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities, were he once to enter it; and depend upon it, Mr. Bingley never stirs without him.† (source)
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And yet, she heard those chords in her sleep, found herself humming them during her ablutions.† (source)
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The evening had come, it was time to perform the evening's ablution.† (source)
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Lemme finish my goddam ablutions in peace, please.† (source)
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The way of worship is primarily that of preserving and cultivating purity of heart: 'What is ablution?† (source)
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Once the political ablutions were over, a gentle buzz wafted through the hallway as the students settled into their quieter routine of rote learning.† (source)
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