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How to use vows in a sentence

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They took vows of chastity and poverty, and if part of a monastic community, obedience to the abbot.
Guru Gobind Singh then begged them to administer to him the vows of initiation.
Associates are affiliated with the community, but do not take canonical vows.
It was a beautiful ritual that allowed me to publicly affirm the vows that I had sworn so many years before.
The statuesque actress, who counts Sylvester Stallone among her previous husbands, has made her vows with her Italian boyfriend.
Despite vows by politicians to cut red tape, the burden just keeps growing.
I therefore felt somewhat of a hypercrit to be making vows in God's house when I'm not altogether sure of my beliefs.
The sight of that desecration was enough to renew my long-forgotten vows of vegetarianism.
He then changes into a simple robe, renounces the world, and takes his vows as a monk.
Mitra, an important god connected with vows and covenants is also mentioned in the Zoroastrian pantheon under his Greco-Iranian name Mithras.
They held hands and recited vows, traded simple silver rings as wedding bands, and then kissed.
I flagged down a passing brother, knowing by now that the old vows of silence had given way to a smiling loquacity.
Civic society member Eric Mahy said he hoped the campaign would inspire more love-struck couples to pick Corsham as the place to swap their vows.
But vows were meant to be broken, as the sage philosopher Jennifer Lopez has pointed out.
The name sounds right for exchanging marriage vows and what better auspices could there be for starting a nuclear family?
One couple was shown exchanging vows submerged in an aquarium tank, diving bells over their heads, while tropical fish swam past.
I don't expect to keep all five vows but, say, three out of five would be good enough.
A band of gold seals the wedding vows, and fifty years later the metal valorizes the most exalted anniversary of married bliss.
After the vows are said, the Orthodox groom places a plain gold band on the ring finger of his bride's right hand.
While Bernadette and Patrick did exchange wedding vows, their marriage is not legally binding.
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Examples from Classical Literature
After his death her first impulse was to take the vows of a cloistered nun.
He then offers a prayer to Aeolus, and vows to him a sacrifice of a black ram.
Leading a brahmacharya mode of life and observing sacred vows, one should bathe in the lakes of Rama.
One should next proceed to Brahmavarta, with concentrated soul and practising the brahmacharya vows.
Later on he joined the Cistercians of Cortale, near Catanzaro, and there took vows.
For two days, so Solon vows, they ate the herrin' and the other two they chewed the sticks.
Bonivard never took monastic vows or holy orders, but held his living in commendam, as a lay-man.
She had called him hers while another woman held his vows, and she was degraded.
The monk obtained a dispensation from his vows, and married the young girl.
I set no value on religious vows, yet I am free to confess I attach a very special value to a fine leg if it belongs to a Nun.
My friends, I have heard the vows which Paaker has poured out over our pure altars, like hogwash that men set before swine.
Marco vows on the bones of his mother that the master has not one soldo left in the bag.
My body shall be the altar, and my sighs the vows, and I will intone the service in thousands and thousands of verses.
I was just on the point of breaking my vows and telling all, when who should pop in but lordy.
To the great mothers, Anthony Orberthol willingly and meritoriously has performed his vows or promises.
Then gifts to the gods not unmeet not idly given, with promise from tight-closed lips did she address her vows.
When the vows of the Nazarite were made lawfully, their matter was not indifferent.
It is never unpleasantly hot in Southern California, they say, just as the yukoner vows he never suffers from the cold.
On a high raised platform under a peepul tree were a number of people under vows, bound for Palni.
Thence to Tom's about business, and so to the pewterer's, to buy a poore's-box to put my forfeits in, upon breach of my late vows.
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