altar

Example Sentences

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“In my culture and religion, a lot of my family practices — an Afro-Caribbean religion — we build altars.”

From Los Angeles Times

That stone now sits in an altar at St Davids Cathedral, built on the site of his original monastery.

From BBC

She spent hours in front of this memorial altar, drowning in sadness.

From Literature

But “the economic stakes, and the need for new trade relationships, are too high for us to be putting everything at the altar of diaspora politics.”

From The Wall Street Journal

At one end of her playhouse, Daisy had built a little altar.

From Literature