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shrine

[shrahyn] / ʃraɪn /


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The 29-year-old student traveled to the shrine from the southeastern city of Vicosa and plans to vote for Lula.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

In minutes, Bartlett had sketched the makeshift shrine that Helga builds for Arnold in her closet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

His impact has been such that Napoli supporters have even erected a street shrine in his honour.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Down a quiet residential lane in central Taipei, behind the stalls of a farmers market, I found a shrine to the area’s Taoist earth god.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Just past one bad curve, a small shrine has been erected, La Virgen surrounded by three concrete crosses recently whitewashed.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The remains of Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been carried through two of Shia Islam's holiest shrines in neighbouring Iraq, as funeral ceremonies continue for a fifth day.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

But Muslim shrines have not seen the same largesse, said analyst and Modi biographer Mukhopadhyay.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 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

Some of the visitors make shrines, leave flowers at her statue, or give small offerings to the sea.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

We give to the dead their honors,—meet homage for the dust that shrined a soul.

From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton

He had shrined it fittingly in his home, with flowers and candles about it, and adored it daily.

From Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

The million-tinted pearl of ocean Lies shrined within its mortal shell, And sails the deep in wavy motion, Responsive to each tidal swell.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various

Where ’twas shrined in my heart I thy image discrown, And from out thy high heaven I hurl thee adown!

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig

You have been shrined in my heart since that second time we met, but I knew it was hopeless——" "Clever boy!

From White Fire by John Oxenham

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 Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

"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

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.


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