Example sentences for: pilgrimage

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

  • But here is what Gore, who made a pilgrimage to see Bak, has to say:

  • The enduring popular appeal of St. Francis (1182–1226) has turned his native pink-hued town into Italy’s major pilgrimage destination, second only to Rome.

  • Behind him is Padua’s great site of pilgrimage, the 13th- and 14th-century Basilica of Sant’Antonio, the city’s protector simply known as II Santo, built in honor of the Portuguese-born Franciscan monk who died in Padua in 1231.

  • In a somewhat mysterious allusion, Hodo also compares Harrison's "pilgrimage" to that of Dilsey, the black servant in The Sound and the Fury ; perhaps he meant to refer to incest-victim Caddy.

  • The event was declared a miracle and within a few years Amstelredamme became a place of pilgrimage, further increasing the wealth flowing into the city.


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