How to Use pilgrim in a Sentence
pilgrim
noun- Thousands of Muslim pilgrims traveled to Mecca.
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Once camel trains set off from here with slaves, pilgrims, salt and gold.
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The Economist,
5 July 2018
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Knots of pilgrims and tourists milling about outside drew near.
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Aatish Taseer,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2023
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Tourists and pilgrims, too, were seized with fear of the unknown.
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Riyaz Wani,
Quartz India,
4 Aug. 2019
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To the left is a porter's lodge, to the right a large bench on which pilgrims would sleep.
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Jim Berkeley,
Town & Country,
5 Oct. 2016
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His remains will soon draw an influx of pilgrims once again.
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Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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And so Rome without pilgrims feels like a very strange place to all of us.
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Bernhard Warner,
Fortune,
10 Apr. 2020
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As in, flamingos dressed as turkeys dressed as—wait for it—pilgrims.
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Candace Braun Davison,
House Beautiful,
28 Sep. 2018
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The pilgrims proceed single file past the boy, who has been dead now for many years.
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Emily Harnett,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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Thoughts come, too, about sleep, time, and men, those cretins, pilgrims, scholars, and bards.
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Jane Alison
june 17,
Literary Hub,
17 June 2025
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Sit and on the rocks for a bit—the same ones used by Shinto pilgrims to pray.
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Laura Studarus,
Marie Claire,
5 July 2019
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This event is renewed today in the Church, a pilgrim in time.
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Washington Post,
25 Dec. 2017
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Pilgrims in Mina will camp there and pray and worship.
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Mariam Fam,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2026
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Finally, the innkeepers open the doors of the home to let the pilgrims in.
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Paula Soria,
AZCentral.com,
15 Dec. 2025
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That became the site of his first church and still attracts pilgrims today.
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Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
17 Mar. 2026
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The pilgrims also gathered on land.
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ABC News,
14 May 2026
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But the bush still stands in the park, marked by a wood cross, a white picket fence, and flowers left by pilgrims.
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Kristin E. Holmes,
Philly.com,
11 Oct. 2017
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Despite the war, the number of Hajj pilgrims was up this year.
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Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
2 June 2026
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The bridges and tunnels are going to be clogged with pilgrims seeking blessings for months.
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Richard Lawson,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2017
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The 5-6 day odyssey drew almost 2 million pilgrims from around the world.
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Jane Onyanga-Omara,
USA TODAY,
24 June 2024
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To travel to Jerusalem was far too difficult for most pilgrims.
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National Geographic,
30 Dec. 2019
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By the way, Rozek, ever the pilgrim on his own path, doesn't own a computer.
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Jon Katz,
WIRED,
1 Mar. 1995
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According to legend, pilgrims would have covered the last two and a half miles from the inn to her shrine on their knees.
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Catherine Fairweather,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Aug. 2023
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At midnight on May 1, hundreds of pilgrims set out from Nuoro.
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New York Times,
19 May 2026
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The relic trade was big business at the time; relics were bought and sold, and pilgrims often paid a fee to visit them.
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Eric Vanden Eykel,
The Conversation,
3 Sep. 2024
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Dreher’s excitement about the pilgrims turned out to be mutual.
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Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Some pilgrims spent weeks working on plantations.
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Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
17 Apr. 2026
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That is one of the reasons that led me to come as a pilgrim in your midst, to thank you and to confirm you in your faith and witness.
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Andrew Bernard,
Washington Examiner,
11 Mar. 2021
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Dakkak said that for years now, as the numbers of pilgrims and tourists plummeted, he's barely been able to make ends meet.
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ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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On the first afternoon, new homeless friends and we, the pilgrims, sat together on the grass.
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Judy Knotts,
Austin American-Statesman,
27 Dec. 2024
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