How to Use pilgrim in a Sentence

pilgrim

noun

• Thousands of Muslim pilgrims traveled to Mecca.
• The pilgrim collar of her dress touched the cold glass.
  — Longreads, 12 Oct. 2017
• Sit and on the rocks for a bit—the same ones used by Shinto pilgrims to pray.
  — Laura Studarus, Marie Claire, 5 July 2019
• Tourists and pilgrims, too, were seized with fear of the unknown.
  — Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 4 Aug. 2019
• And so Rome without pilgrims feels like a very strange place to all of us.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2020
• Once camel trains set off from here with slaves, pilgrims, salt and gold.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• This event is renewed today in the Church, a pilgrim in time.
  — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2017
• The 5-6 day odyssey drew almost 2 million pilgrims from around the world.
  — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
• Knots of pilgrims and tourists milling about outside drew near.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• But the bush still stands in the park, marked by a wood cross, a white picket fence, and flowers left by pilgrims.
  — Kristin E. Holmes, Philly.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• The street had once hummed with pilgrims and schoolchildren.
  — Hannah Beech Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• That is one of the reasons that led me to come as a pilgrim in your midst, to thank you and to confirm you in your faith and witness.
  — Andrew Bernard, Washington Examiner, 11 Mar. 2021
• Bujold was among the 500 pilgrims who made the trip this June to the conference, held this year in Cleveland, Ohio.
  — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
• But can Skellig Michael survive a new type of pilgrim, the legions of Star Wars fans?
  — Julia Blakely, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
• Inside, the small, low-ceilinged rooms are peopled with pilgrims.
  — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
• To the beadles, this is a workplace; to the tourist, an Instagrammable spectacle; to the pilgrim, a place of prayer.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• This is the place where the pilgrims landed at Plymouth and where Texas patriots made their last stand at the Alamo.
  — WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• As in, flamingos dressed as turkeys dressed as—wait for it—pilgrims.
  — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 28 Sep. 2018
• According to legend, pilgrims would have covered the last two and a half miles from the inn to her shrine on their knees.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
• Fuente, the Salvadoran pilgrim, is eager to share the fervor of her faith.
  — MarÍa Teresa HernÁndez, ajc, 10 Dec. 2022
• But in the hills and along the roads, glow sticks and flashlights shone as pilgrims continued walking toward the shrine.
  — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Thousands of pilgrims on their way to shrine or lodged at the base camps in Pahalgam and Sonamarg were asked to return.
  — Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 4 Aug. 2019
• Also a pilgrim, Safar Ali, 53, stands in the waters near Naing Sharif.
  — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• The bridges and tunnels are going to be clogged with pilgrims seeking blessings for months.
  — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2017
• In place of the typical din of tourists and religious pilgrims, the listener can hear shoes on stone in the middle of the day.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• Tuck the hand inside, as Ceruti also did in his own self-portrait as a Catholic pilgrim, painted around the same time.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• Roads have been widened, with the 8-mile, four-lane Ram Path guiding pilgrims to the pink sandstone, three-story structure.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2024
• Sunday's papal Mass used to draw thousands of pilgrims from around the world to the sprawling square at the Vatican.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 5 Apr. 2020
• Craig’s Lee is a pilgrim in search of pleasure, sensation, satiety.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
• In addition to the shroud, pilgrims visited Jesus’ crib, splinters from the cross and Jesus’ foreskin, just to name a few.
  — Eric Vanden Eykel, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024