Examples of “rosary” in a Sentence

noun A string of beads used, especially by Catholics, to count prayers as they are recited.

• Her grandmother always kept a rosary in her coat pocket.
• He held the wooden rosary tightly as he sat quietly in the church.
• She received a silver rosary from her aunt on the day of her first communion.

noun The set of prayers recited using such beads.

• The family said the rosary together every evening during Lent.
• Every Friday, the women of the parish gather to pray the rosary together.
• He learned the rosary as a child and still recites it before bed.