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shrine

[shrahyn] / ʃraɪn /


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It remained to be seen if the guidance would be adhered to on Saturday, with the shrine saying staff would "provide guidance" at the entrance to those "unaware".

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

Japan's defence minister paid his respects Saturday at a shrine honouring the country's war dead that has long dogged Tokyo's relations with its Asian neighbours, but Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

A shrine in the entryway of Ruth Higdon’s home in Ridgway.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

News of the 52-year-old’s death went viral, along with a six-minute video manifesto he left behind, prompting demonstrations in Canada, France, Australia, India and elsewhere, including a floral shrine in front of the U.N.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

It’s filled with jars and specialty items instead of pill bottles, sitting under his shrine to his favorite skateboarder, Paul Rodriguez, and the entire Colombian national soccer team.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

After Najaf, Khamenei's body will be flown to Karbala, about 60 kilometres north, for another procession that will culminate at the shrines of Imam Hussein and his brother Abbas.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

She enjoys tea ceremonies, wearing kimonos and visiting shrines and temples, according to her official profile page.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

But “Ankhmerwer”—gorgeously inscribed and illustrated and sprinkled with glimmering gold shrines, crowns, birds, gods and sun disks—rewards close looking and empathetic eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

In a salty touch, the first thing Kenna does is remove his roadside cross, claiming he hated memorial shrines.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2026

‘You’re nothing but a tool for the giants. They’ll cast you aside as soon as they’re through destroying the mortals. Then no demigods, no shrines, no fear, no respect.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

“Some day, sire,” she said, “your precious bones will be so shrined and worshipped.”

From The Proud Prince by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

The Easter moon, golden-white and holy, looked down at her, shrined under the long sharp arch of the beech-trees; it was like going up and up towards a dim sanctuary where the holiest sat enthroned.

From The Flaw in the Crystal by May Sinclair

Cecilia reads it until each comforting assertion is shrined within her heart and doubt is no longer possible.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

O thou, in me, Art shrined, as none hath seen thee, as gods live Whom Time shall not consume; nor rusts thy gold Ever, so hath my soul enclosed thee round With its divine air.

From Eidola by Frederic Manning

I would not that one glance to-day, One glance through clouds and tears, Should mar the image in my soul That love hath shrined for years.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

"May all that cling to sprays of time, like me, Be sweetly wafted over sky and sea By rose-breaths shrining maidens like to thee!"

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier

The wisest soul, by anguish torn,   Will soon unlearn the lore it knew; And when the shrining casket's worn,   The gem within will tarnish too.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

Bosomed with the Blessed One, He shall mind her of her Son,    Once so folded from all harms     In her shrining arms.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

Elsewhere he speaks of Tweed shrining the music of his cradle song, and the requiem he would most prefer—may that day be long in coming!

From In the Border Country by W. S.

Bosomed with the Blessed One, He shall mind her of her Son, Once so folded from all harms, In her shrining arms.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson




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