Example sentences for: pilgrims

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

  • Converted to Islam in the tenth century, and fired by religious zeal, the Seljuks overran Anatolia, menacing Christian holy places and attacking the pilgrims bound for Jerusalem.

  • Worship carried on here longer than in other pagan sites in Egypt, with texts stating that pilgrims came as late as the fourth century a.d.

  • However, with the city partitioned by fortifications and barbed wire, no Israeli or Jewish pilgrims were allowed to visit the Western Wall or other Jewish sites in East Jerusalem.

  • Thus, numerous trans-alphabetic glossaries—Greek-Latin, LatinGreek, Hebrew-Latin, Arabic-Coptic, and ArabicGreek—once thought to be schoolboys' exercises, are probably elementary aids for tourists, pilgrims, and businessmen.

  • More than a million pilgrims and tourists visit each year.


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