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thanksgiving - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • offer: The very first thing that Noah does is offer a thanksgiving to the Lord - his first act is one of prayer.

Preposition: for

  • birth: How many services of thanksgiving for the birth of a child have there been in the last five years?
  • life: I took a service of thanksgiving for the life of a young man.
  • gift: For Pentecost, organize a service of thanksgiving for the gifts of creation, not forgetting their proper use.
  • deliverance: The service of thanksgiving for deliverance from the Gunpowder Plot remained in the Prayer Book for 254 years.
  • year: Part of the thanksgiving for the 75 years of worship and witness at Starbeck Methodist Church.
  • work: Bishop Declan will be celebrating a Mass of thanksgiving for the work of all those who are involved in the work of Catholic Education.

Adjective modifier

  • public: The third is being able to give public thanksgiving together through Jesus to His Father in the Holy Spirit.
  • much: My mentioning our sister's release occasioned much thanksgiving to God.
  • joyful: Please join us to share in this service of hope and joyful thanksgiving for the resurrection of Jesus after the despair of the Cross.
  • general: Parliament was so glad of the fall of Pendennis that they made September 22 a day of general thanksgiving.
  • great: I have great respect for at least one man who holds that view, and I think of him with great thanksgiving.

Modifies a noun

  • drehobl: The range the it didn't last long crowdaround thanksgiving drehobl on the aim.
  • prayer: Often a tree or group of trees would be chosen to become a place of worship or of thanksgiving prayers to ancestors.
  • service: The thanksgiving service will start at 11am on Sunday 2 July.
  • day: And then I tell you we'd have a thanksgiving day and Christmas tree combined.
  • offering: The thanksgiving psalms seem to have been used in public worship, often in conjunction with a thanksgiving offering.
  • mass: THANKSGIVING MASS for the Holy Father Sunday October 26 th, 6 p.m. at St. Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham.

Noun used with modifier

  • crowdaround: The range the it didn't last long crowdaround thanksgiving drehobl on the aim.
  • harvest: This is harvest thanksgiving, thanking God for the favorable conditions which have enabled the farmers to secure a good yield.

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