Example sentences for: altar

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

  • Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Chapel, behind the main altar, unites modern and traditional religious art in a more intimate setting for marriages and memorial services.

  • Family and friends are invited to visit and add items to the altar, which becomes almost a shrine, and is called an ofrenda.

  • Bronze that once embellished the entrance was carted away and recycled as Bernini’s canopy for the high altar in St. Peter’s.

  • Of prime importance is the saint’s tomb to the left of the altar.

  • It is said that any will to which one swears before the church’s altar is recognized as valid by the courts of Barcelona, a practice that dates to the tenth century.


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