paternoster

"During Catholic Mass, we recite the paternoster together as a congregation. "

"The old office building still had a paternoster, allowing employees to hop on and off the slowly moving cabins as they traveled between floors. "

"The picture frame had a row of small, round beads, or a paternoster, decorating its inner edge. "

"The fisherman cast his line, hoping the paternoster would carry his bait down to where the fish were feeding deep below. "

"My grandmother used her paternoster to count her prayers before bed. "

"While praying the rosary, she paused at each paternoster to recite the Lord's Prayer. "

"Old Thomas, the village's paternoster, spent his days carefully shaping wooden beads for the church's rosaries. "

"Back then, traveling salesmen often hawked their questionable remedies, hoping to boost sales by calling each product a "paternoster" and reciting prayers over them before offering them to gullible customers. "

"My grandpa loves to paternoster for perch in the lake behind his house, using a rig with several small hooks. "