Example sentences for: shrines

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

  • As with home yard shrines and home altars, everyday objects are used as personal and artistic statements.

  • The rather dour building hides a treasure-trove of statuary and other artifacts found during excavation of the ancient shrines of the city, and communal buildings such as the Agora.

  • There is a small forest of white chaitya shrines behind the Hariti Devi temple, and a porch to one side where pilgrims congregate to prepare meals in offering for the goddess.

  • They see architectural splendor among the many mosques, the incense-rich Chinese and Hindu shrines, and even the Petronas Twin Towers of Kuala Lumpur.

  • Xi’an’s once-glorious temples were devastated during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), but restorations have led to the reopening of the Lama Temple (Guangrensi), founded in 1705; Woolongsi, an ancient Zen Buddhist temple; Dongyuemiao, a Daoist temple to the mountain god of Taishan; and the Temple of the Eight Immortals (Baxianguan), which is the most active of the city’s religious shrines at present and has an open-air market.


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