Example sentences for: sanctuaries

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

  • These deceptively simple structures are no less than the sacred repository of the national identity — Shinto sanctuaries dedicated nearly 2,000 years ago to Japan’s founding deities.

  • Explaining the new arrangement and his concerns in another commencement speech, this time at the Naval Academy, in May 1998, the President said: First, we will use our new integrated approach to intensify the fight against all forms of terrorism: to capture terrorists, no matter where they hide; to work with other nations to eliminate terrorist sanctuaries overseas; to respond rapidly and effectively to protect Americans from terrorism at home and abroad.

  • The beach can be reached across a long, nostalgic wooden bridge that crosses over wetlands and bird sanctuaries.

  • Quite simply, very few organizations do more (or more important) work to save the balance and beauty of nature plus the acquisition and maintenance of wildlife sanctuaries all over America.

  • Oftentimes, these polar opposites come together: Ise-Shima, the most sacred of all sanctuaries of Shinto (Japan’s ancient, nature-worshipping indigenous religion) reinforces Japan’s profoundly intimate links with the Sun Goddess and her grandson, the God of the Earth.


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