offertory - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • procession: An Irish girl dancer led the offertory procession, accompanied by a solo violin.
  • hymn: However, neither do general ' offertory hymns ' .
  • envelope: There are offertory envelopes, with detachable prayer card, in the porch today.
  • collection: Offertory collections developed in the days when people were paid weekly in notes and coins.
  • prayer: But while incidental music during the collection seems fine, to have the offertory prayers made silently by the celebrant seems all wrong.
  • box: Theft from offertory boxes is the most common crime.

Preposition: in

  • church: These ladies would not allow anyone to go before them to the offertory in church.

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