How to Use tabernacle in a Sentence

tabernacle

noun
  • The group managed to take vestments, the tabernacle and the Holy Host.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
  • All that was saved as the flames consumed the structure was the tabernacle.
    Fox News, 31 July 2019
  • In homage to basketball, Hoosiers have built tabernacles where the Word is fast-break.
    Fred D. Cavinder, Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Father Lawrence placed the 40 books of the Bible on a church altar surrounding the tabernacle.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 28 Nov. 2020
  • At the top of the altar, a steel case that once contained a $2 million gold tabernacle was cut open and empty.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2022
  • The old tabernacle turned temple is still the focal point of downtown.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Corbett lit a candle all eight days and featured the menorah by the tabernacle.
    Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Frozen Time is a tabernacle too, but one that welcomes the viewer inside.
    Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 7 June 2017
  • Holy Eucharist, bread consecrated as the body of Christ, was taken from the tabernacle and thrown on the altar.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
  • Beside the difference of language, in the Latin Mass the priest faces away from the congregation and instead faces the tabernacle at the front of the church where the Eucharist is kept.
    William Wan, Washington Post, 24 July 2022
  • A group of Methodists built a tabernacle in Wesleyan Grove for open air revivals, and rows of gingerbread cottages sprang up around it.
    Ash Carter, Town & Country, 29 June 2016
  • At the site of an ancient city on the West Bank, archaeologists are also hunting for evidence of the tabernacle that once housed the Ark of the Covenant.
    James Rogers, Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • The Holy Eucharist, or communion, kept inside the tabernacle was also tossed all over the alter.
    Mark Osborne, ABC News, 30 May 2022
  • Rows of pews were replaced by movable chairs, the altar was moved forward into the nave and the tabernacle was relocated to a side chapel.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022
  • To remove the tabernacle, thieves had to cut through a metal protective casing.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 31 May 2022
  • In a separate project at the site of an ancient city on the West Bank, archaeologists have been hunting for evidence of the tabernacle that once housed the Ark of the Covenant.
    Fox News, 24 June 2019
  • Later a religious sister explained to her that Catholics believe that Jesus is present in the Eucharist, in the tabernacle.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022
  • They were stationed at elbow’s height, framed with stone, and shaped like a tabernacle, lest those about to imbibe forget the consequences that come with having one too many.
    Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Ramban understands the Mishkan (tabernacle) as a kind of portable Mt. Sinai.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Protestant churches accordingly did away with the tabernacle that housed the Eucharist in Catholic churches.
    Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • The tabernacle, a box containing Holy Communion items, was made of 18-carat gold and decorated with jewels, police and the diocese said.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
  • The family has also built a sprawling biblical theme park in the West Bank settlement of Shilo, revered as the ancient site of the biblical tabernacle.
    Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • The criminals cut the sacred tabernacle out of its protective housing.
    CBS News, 31 May 2022
  • Today, the priest usually faces worshipers at Mass and the tabernacle is often relegated to the sidelines, no longer the center of attention.
    Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • For more than a century, the converted tabernacle has been filling its pews and placing on the pulpit the biggest names in music—from Chris Stapleton to Foo Fighters.
    Kristin Luna, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2018
  • During the liquefaction days, the relic is taken out of the tabernacle and put on display, but Cardarilli says that that if visitors request to see it, it can be shown any day of the year.
    Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The grove consists of a former summer hotel now rented out for special events, 47 cottages now usually used as weekend getaways, an open-air tabernacle and a series of paths.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 14 July 2017
  • For comparison's sake: This is the same bible that included my Torah portion, Bamidbar, which was literally just about counting tribes around a sacred tabernacle.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Angel statues flanking the tabernacle were decapitated and destroyed, the diocese said.
    CBS News, 31 May 2022
  • Tumino speculated that multiple people were involved in the heist, considering the immense weight of the tabernacle.
    Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 31 May 2022

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