altar

A pair of deep seats covered in nubby upholstery sit close to this sacred space’s altar — a vinyl-stacked media console holding a vintage receiver and turntable, flanked by two ATC SCM50 loudspeakers.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

And the unintended upshot could be more wealthy couples staying together, while the less prosperous among us avoid the altar entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The Catholic service, conducted in Armenian, was open-casket, allowing mourners a final chance to say goodbye as they filed by the altar at the conclusion of the ceremony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Torches lit the way for the 30-year-old groom, known by the callsign Ice, and the 32-year-old bride, Khomochka, through the woods to the altar as fellow soldiers formed a guard of honour.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

The mantelpiece became like an altar to his memory.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

By the mid-20th century, this inherited relationship with the macabre migrated from home altars and rural folk traditions into the pavement of urban youth cultures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

It is a central element in the lavish altars erected to the deceased on November 1-2 and is also used to festoon homes and streets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Agosto Machado’s altars channel Betye Saar’s assemblages, but have little of the mystery that makes her work so compelling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

In England during the Reformation it was not only the altars that were stripped, but also sites in the landscape which were associated with animacy.

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

They didn’t say much at first, just “Hi,” and then the boys started looking around at the altars and the things on them.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder