How to Use shrine in a Sentence

shrine

noun

• They erected a shrine to the saint.
• The writer's house has become a shrine to his fans.
• The attack took place on a Wednesday evening, one of the busiest times for the shrine.
  — Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 8 July 2023
• At times, the Dome of the Rock – a shrine – and Al-Aqsa – a mosque – have been confused as one and the same.
  — Ken Chitwood, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
• Her body is set to be placed in a glass shrine in the church on Monday.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 May 2023
• Near the head of the tent, Lonnie’s daughters have set up a shrine for Jalon.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Some cross the street to a bus stop bench, which has become a shrine to the victims.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
• The show begins in the lobby, where a shrine to Kate Berlant is set up.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Chip was the one who found the shrine, which had sat largely empty since the Shriners moved out in the 1990s.
  — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2024
• Participants will spend the night in tents on the ground of the Shrine and inside the shrine.
  — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2023
• In Bolivia, some pilgrims made the approach to the shrine on their knees.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• And one side of the room was a shrine to Jesus, and the other side of the room was a shrine to Duran Duran.
  — Nick A. Zaino Iii, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• The first explosion was near Soleimani’s burial place, and the second near the shrine.
  — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• In her version, though, there was no shrine waiting to be found in the center.
  — Ryan Ruby, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
• Her initial instinct was to treat it as a shrine, down to keeping the paint colors on the walls.
  — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• Our first stop was a fertility shrine near the monastery.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Care to visit a 100-plus-year-old shrine with its very own subway stop?
  — ELLE, 27 Jan. 2023
• The airy working space is home to small shrines of the movies Hardwicke’s directed over the last two decades.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2023
• In Tel Aviv, Mack said, there are shrines to those killed and taken hostage, some with teddy bears.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• After Caleb Slay died, his family set up a small shrine on the spot where he was shot.
  — Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• The electoral message was found inside the room that contained the home’s shrine, called the lararium.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• Most make the journey to the shrine to fulfill a promise — a manda — or give thanks to the Virgin Mary for her blessings.
  — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
• Khamenei, 83, took ill not long after returning to Tehran from a visit to a shrine in the city of Mashhad.
  — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2022
• Smith and Linney have the film’s best scene together, when Lily visits the baths filled with holy water at the shrine.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
• Over the years, the beach has become something of a shrine for Potterheads, who often come bearing the gift of socks.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2022
• The spiritual center and shrine re-opened in late 2022 and its facade is made from the same marble as the Parthenon in Athens.
  — Amanda Randone, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2023
• And that solution works well for the first puzzle: Where the real lesson comes in is for the final puzzle of the shrine.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 23 May 2023
• In the days following Phoenix’s death, fans turned the outside of The Viper Room into a temporary shrine for the late actor.
  — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• Across the courtyard is the Dome of the Rock, an ornate Islamic shrine, with a golden dome visible across much of the city.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
• Sounds of a folk music rehearsal drifted out of the church, down past a shrine and through the island’s seaside graveyard.
  — Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024