Example Sentences

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“Because I’m English, and we don’t really do cults, I didn’t really understand what was going on. But everybody was worshipping him.”

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2017

They had begun this training in 1985, as I was worshipping Optimus Prime with an open mouth before an ancient television set.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2016

Other historically black churches might have desired the President’s presence on Easter, but they understood why he was worshipping with a grieving congregation.

From Time • Apr. 23, 2011

For half a century, I deluded myself into thinking I was worshipping an eternal, spiritual being, the Creator.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frequently he was still under the impression—this was especially the case with monks—that he was worshipping the ecclesiastical deity, when he had long been praying to a metaphysical conception of his own.

From The Evolution of Love by Schleussner, Ellie