Example sentences for: pilgrims

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

  • Boudhanath has attracted Tibetan monks and pilgrims for centuries, and over the years a Tibetan and Sherpa community has grown in this area.

  • A taxi can take you almost to the very top of the hill, but it is more interesting to follow the pilgrims’ route and climb the 365 steps that lead up through a wooded park filled with monkeys.

  • Chinese pilgrims of all political persuasions come from many countries to honor the founder of the Chinese Republic at the Mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshanling), in the Purple Hills east of Nanjing.

  • On the site of the Gothic complex of the Hospital de la Santa Creu (Hospital of the Holy Cross), a hospital and refuge for pilgrims stood for a thousand years.

  • 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.


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