Example sentences for: pagoda

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

  • Inside, the monastery surrounds a sunken courtyard with an exquisite golden shrine in the center, backed by a pagoda temple decorated with episodes from the life of Buddha.

  • Extensively renovated and enlarged in 1998, the White Pagoda Temple (Bai Ta Si) is renowned for its Tibetan-style pagoda (usually called a dagoba or stupa).

  • Its most arresting site is Little Western Heaven (Xiao Xi Tian), which consists of a square pagoda and four towers, erected as a shrine to the Goddess of Mercy (Guanyin) in 1770.

  • The white pagoda itself, rising 51 m (167 ft), is last and, like most dagobas, remains sealed, its holy treasures and relics somewhere beneath or inside the imposing structure.

  • In Cave No. 6, nearly square in plan, a pagoda reaches to the ceiling.


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