Example sentences for: altars

How can you use “altars” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • During Día de los Muertos, altars are set up in galleries and exhibit halls as artistic and cultural expressions, with ofrendas created for particularly known individuals.

  • Many of the paintings are retablos, many-paneled screens with Gothic-arched frames that stood behind chapel altars.

  • While pilgrims circumambulate the stupa, monkeys, dogs, and pigeons clamber about and forage for scraps of food offerings in small altars set in the foundation.

  • See also Altars; Camposanto; Descansos; Hábito; Mandas; Religious Folk Art; Santos

  • It has Gothic arches, a splendid inlaid cedar ceiling of Moorish design, beautifully carved blue-and-gold choir stalls, gilded altars, and a sprinkling of nice azulejos (blue-and-white ceramic tiles).


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