Example sentences for: altar

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

  • Just north of Silk Alley and the Friendship Store is Ritan Park (Ritan Gongyuan), location in imperial days of the Altar of the Sun.

  • In the Gondi Chapel (left of the high altar), the Brunelleschi Crucifixion (1410), his only scultpure in wood, brings to the human body a characteristic idealized harmony, compared with Donatello’s more personal piece in the church of Santa Croce (see page 87).

  • The only element of the church not blue-and-white is the carved, gilded altar.

  • Behind the simple modern altar, the columns branch high overhead into the arched vaulting of the apse.

  • Covering the chancel behind the main altar, the Ghirlandaio frescoes of the lives of the Madonna and St. John kept the master’s entire workshop busy from 1485 to 1490.


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