SHRINE in a Sentence

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25 example sentences for SHRINE, such as:

1. The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.
2. Elvis's home has become a shrine for his fans.
3. He built a chapel as a shrine to the memory of his dead wife.
4. Slightly smaller than the shrine, the chapel is also a domed structure cruciform in plan.
5. She's turned her bedroom into a shrine to the dead pop star and covered the walls with pictures of him.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHRINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shrine
 n.  case or box, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint; sacred place, as altar or tomb
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  They all liked Jo immensely, but never fell in love with her, though very few escaped without paying the tribute of a sentimental sigh or two at Amy's shrine.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
2  All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  Already it has done me good: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a shrine.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  The floors were glistening and bare except for a few bright rag rugs, and the white walls unornamented save for one corner which Melanie had fitted up as a shrine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  It would be wonderful, she exulted, not to have to live in Other People's Houses, but to make her own shrine.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  The chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty, so that I thought this fire-place made a very appropriate little shrine or chapel for his Congo idol.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
7  So speaks he, and carries forth in his hands from their inner shrine the chaplets and strength of Vesta, and the everlasting fire.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
8  Thus speaks she to Aeneas; nor do they delay to do her sacred bidding; and the priestess calls the Teucrians into the lofty shrine.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
9  The place where she stood seemed to him a holy shrine, unapproachable, and there was one moment when he was almost retreating, so overwhelmed was he with terror.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
10  Just at Christmastime I was deemed worthy to partake of the holy and heavenly sacrament at the shrine of the saint.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII
11  We, the wretched people, to whom that day was our last, hang the shrines of the gods with festal boughs throughout the city.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
12  Hither from all quarters is flung in masses the treasure of Troy torn from burning shrines, tables of the gods, bowls of solid gold, and raiment of the captives.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
13  First they visit the shrines, and desire grace from altar to altar; they sacrifice sheep fitly chosen to Ceres the Lawgiver, to Phoebus and lord Lyaeus, to Juno before all, guardian of the marriage bond.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
14  But Caesar rode into the city of Rome in triple triumph, and dedicated his vowed offering to the gods to stand for ever, three hundred stately shrines all about the city.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
15  But there came a time when Laurie ceased to worship at many shrines, hinted darkly at one all-absorbing passion, and indulged occasionally in Byronic fits of gloom.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
Example Sentence:
1  Elvis's home has become a shrine for his fans.
2  He built a chapel as a shrine to the memory of his dead wife.
3  She thinks that young people today are becoming increasingly selfish, and worship at the shrine of individual happiness and gratification.
4  The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.
5  She's turned her bedroom into a shrine to the dead pop star and covered the walls with pictures of him.
6  Slightly smaller than the shrine, the chapel is also a domed structure cruciform in plan.
7  There the Pope touched the white marble shrine and paused for a minute in silent prayer, just like millions of pilgrims before him.
8  Monks are rattled: the one manning Guanyin's donation box fears such undisguised moneymaking would turn their shrine into a temple run by CEO abbot.