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Example sentences for: altar

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Perhaps the most dramatic area in the church is the wall behind the altar, where there are sculptures in niches depicting Christ and the saints.
Right of the triumphant Baroque high altar is a beautifully carved 15th-century lavabo (ritual basin) and a charming Madonna and Child by Bernardino Luini.
Another collector of shrunken heads, who requested anonymity, has a Vietnam War photograph of a group of American soldiers posing by a crude altar fashioned from skulls and bones, reminiscent of the ghastly constructions of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge.
The Temple of Juno, with its sacrificial altar, stands in majestic isolation high on a ledge at the eastern end of the Via Sacra.
This is sometimes effective in extracting a proposal, but it is also a little like lassoing a calf, and who wants a groom one is dragging to the altar?