How to Use shrine in a Sentence

shrine

noun
  • They erected a shrine to the saint.
  • The writer's house has become a shrine to his fans.
  • Sounds like an ex shrine to me too.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
  • He is said to have draped the shrine in striped red wool.
    — Iqbal Akhtar, The Conversation, 25 May 2026
  • There’s a shrine by the road, its iron doors spotted with rust.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a shrine by the road, its iron doors spotted with rust.
    — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Her body is set to be placed in a glass shrine in the church on Monday.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 May 2023
  • The shrine said Holy Week draws some of its largest crowds of the year.
    — John Odenthal, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Some cross the street to a bus stop bench, which has become a shrine to the victims.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
  • The greenroom at Largo is a small shrine to great talent.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The current watchers of the shrine are Sgt.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
  • In her version, though, there was no shrine waiting to be found in the center.
    — Ryan Ruby, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The attack took place on a Wednesday evening, one of the busiest times for the shrine.
    — Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 8 July 2023
  • Flowers by the roadside complete the shrine.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Care to visit a 100-plus-year-old shrine with its very own subway stop?
    — ELLE, 27 Jan. 2023
  • In Bolivia, some pilgrims made the approach to the shrine on their knees.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The show begins in the lobby, where a shrine to Kate Berlant is set up.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • On the wall behind was the shrine’s central altar, bronze doors open on either side.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • This is the 71st year the ritual is taking place at the shrine.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Her initial instinct was to treat it as a shrine, down to keeping the paint colors on the walls.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Near the head of the tent, Lonnie’s daughters have set up a shrine for Jalon.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Khamenei—the son of a poor cleric from the shrine city of Mashhad—had other ideas.
    — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Kyoto has some 2,000 shrines and temples.
    — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026
  • And he’s been there and made a vigil, a little shrine, and paid respects to my character.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Kamis can have negative power, too, and shrines are not always portals to peace.
    — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Participants will spend the night in tents on the ground of the Shrine and inside the shrine.
    — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • The shrine is Canton is demeaned and the Class of ‘26 stained.
    — Greg Cote february 1, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Others mourned as a black flag was raised over the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad.
    — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The shrine is located in the Mural Room.
    — Raul Trey Lopez, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • After Caleb Slay died, his family set up a small shrine on the spot where he was shot.
    — Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023

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