Example sentences for: shrine

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

  • To one side of the Kasthamandap is a small, shiny, brass-roofed shrine dedicated to the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh.

  • This shrine to safe passage along the road was once set high above the old road and was only accessible up a narrow rocky path.

  • You’ll see scant remains of a shrine and early propylon.

  • Chinese literary pilgrims are drawn to another of Chengdu’s historic sites, the thatched cottage of Dufu (Dufucaotang), a shrine, museum, and park at the spot where the poet of the Tang Dynasty lived in exile from the capital for several years.

  • Even if you feel you’ve seen enough Japanese temples, you will certainly be moved by the striking beauty of the bright red camphorwood arch of Itsukushima Shrine rising 16 m (52 ft) out of the sea in front of the low, brilliant vermilion buildings, themselves raised above the water by stilts.


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