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How to pronounce “pray”
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Pronunciation guide for pray
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of pray with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- D.O.M.: Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients
And I pray every day for someone to arrest me
- Definition summary
- (religion) To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce pray
D.O.M.: Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients
And I pray every day for someone to arrest me
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “pray”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (religion) To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
- To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
- (obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
- To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.
- (obsolete or law) To implore, to entreat, to request.
- [Adverb]
- (archaic or formal) Please; used to make a polite request
- Alternative form of pray tell (“I ask you”).
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