Example sentences for: shrine

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

  • At its height Kofukuji embraced around 175 separate buildings, including the Kasuga Grand Shrine at the foot of Mt.

  • The statues in the main shrine represent Man, the god of literature, and Mo, the god of war, a curious juxtaposition.

  • At the moment of Murayama's remarks, nine Cabinet members were conspicuously visiting a shrine to Japan's military dead--some of whom had been executed for war crimes.

  • Immediately after Gion, on the 24th and 25th, Osaka holds its flamboyant and mammoth Tenjin Matsuri, starting from the Temmangu shrine.

  • The Nonomiya Shrine is uniquely renowned for its special role in preparing imperial princesses to serve as vestal virgins at the Grand Shrine of Ise, Japan’s most important Shinto shrine (see page 9).


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