How to Use pilgrimage in a Sentence

pilgrimage

1 of 2 noun
  • The poet's grave site has become a place of pilgrimage.
  • He made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
  • The family went on a pilgrimage to historical battlefields.
  • The tradition of pilgrimage is important in Islam.
  • This would be a red sauce pilgrimage.
    — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Out-of-town fans made the pep rally a stop on their pilgrimage to the game tonight.
    — Barry Pintar, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • But a pilgrimage needs a starting point.
    — Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • The scale of the challenge is as vast as the pilgrimage itself.
    — Fmg Studios, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
  • This sci-fi pilgrimage sounds like the perfect way to end a gloomy winter.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Nearly all the diners who have made the eight-hour pilgrimage here are fans of the show.
    — Joel Stein, HollywoodReporter, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Oprah’s best friend, Gayle King, has made the pilgrimage too, of course.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But planning for this epic pilgrimage?
    — Meredith Heil Bock, AFAR Media, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The statue was a huge hit and became a point of pilgrimage for people around the world.
    — CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • This pilgrimage was a key turning point in the success of the movement.
    — Alexia Salvatierra, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Going to matches is more like a pilgrimage.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
  • So why does Wendell still want to make this pilgrimage every year?
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Sports fans make pilgrimages to their team’s stadium.
    — Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
  • For people like him, this Knicks finals run is a pilgrimage.
    — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2026
  • First prize is two tickets for the church’s pilgrimage to Lourdes.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • Paolo Ladu makes the pilgrimage twice a year, barefoot.
    — New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • For those in Buckeye, this is the cardio pilgrimage.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • So that was a Buddhist pilgrimage, as opposed to this is the Catholic.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But Edwards offered more to chew on with his pilgrimage of defeat.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 16 May 2026
  • But this was no religious pilgrimage.
    — Daniel Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
  • The Criterion truck is a pilgrimage that makes house calls.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 10 June 2026
  • For fans, the shows are a pilgrimage, and a rediscovery of the joys of mass gatherings.
    — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • With some meddling from their priest, the three women are selected for a pilgrimage of a lifetime.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
  • In the space of 10 days, both men’s fathers died, and the second visit took on an air of somber pilgrimage.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Resources are being marshaled to help those who made the expensive pilgrimage to the playa.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • All centenarians, this year none were able to make the pilgrimage to Hawaii to mark the event.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 7 Dec. 2025

pilgrimage

2 of 2 verb
  • This seemed to me to be a set and setting worth pilgrimaging for.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2024
  • There are hiking trails and even pilgrimage routes all over the world.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • The team suggests these were linked with ceremonial pathways and pilgrimage routes.
    — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Access to pilgrimage sites has been a big part of the agenda of the governing Hindu nationalist party.
    — Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The other pillars are declaration of faith, daily prayer, charity, as well as making the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • In addition, pilgrims come to Jubilee to walk the 15-mile Seven Churches pilgrimage circuit around the city.
    — Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The offerings were possibly linked to a cult of Inca ancestors, and to pilgrimage ceremonies that took place on the Island of the Sun.
    — National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • And hundreds were killed outside Mecca in a stampede during the annual hajj pilgrimage in 2015.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
  • An international ad campaign persuaded young people to pilgrimage across countries and continents to attend.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The church and the city's religious significance once made Bethlehem a thriving tourist and pilgrimage destination for Christians from around the world.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 27 June 2024
  • Nearly 100,000 visitors pilgrimage to the area annually to witness a forest canopy cloaked in orange-and-black wings.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • People pilgrimage here to sample the best of traditional rural Portuguese cuisine in a delightful countryside setting.
    — Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca has been held amid extreme weather conditions which saw temperatures consistently soar above average figures.
    — Xiaofei Xu and Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN, 23 June 2024
  • In fact, her pilgrimage back to Mexico after completing her studies wasn’t merely a homecoming, but a calling to immerse herself in indigenous communities.
    — Pooja Shah, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Nicknamed the sunshine island, this remote landmass is bursting with postcard-perfect fishing villages, white sand beaches, a thriving artistic community, and a restaurant so exceptional that food lovers pilgrimage to it from around the globe.
    — Isabelle Kliger, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Several hundred of them pilgrimage to Arizona each February for the I Heart Pluto Festival.
    — David Allan, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Some pilgrimages enshrine sorrow, like the Ashura in Iraq, which would be the last stop on my journey; others, like fiesta in Bolivia’s Copacabana, are pilgrimages of joy and rapture.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • But though Lower Mustang was reopened to pilgrimage and trekking in 1992, Upper Mustang remains highly restricted.
    — Holly Walters, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Advertisement Travel to the country once limited essentially to pilgrimage and business travel, opened with a tourist e-visa in 2019 and has since become an engine of jobs and investment.
    — Ali Shihabi, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Under the staunchly secular Soviets, pilgrimage sites such as Manzhyly-Ata were fenced off to prevent spiritual visitors; officials even bulldozed trees or graves, Choitonbaev noted.
    — Diana Kruzman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In recent days hundreds of people from different countries have died in punishing conditions for the hajj pilgrimage in the Saudi Arabian city, where temperatures have at times exceeded 124 degrees.
    — Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Farah Saafan, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
  • The Christmas period will also mark the official end of the Catholic Church’s jubilee year, 12 months dedicated to pilgrimage, spiritual renewal and forgiveness which takes place every 25 years.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
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    — William Earl, Variety, 26 July 2023

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