How to Use tabernacle in a Sentence

tabernacle

noun
  • All that was saved as the flames consumed the structure was the tabernacle.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2019
  • The old tabernacle turned temple is still the focal point of downtown.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
  • What was public was the box, a small tabernacle on the sidewalk, and the tears that were sneaking up on me.
    — James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Corbett lit a candle all eight days and featured the menorah by the tabernacle.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Frozen Time is a tabernacle too, but one that welcomes the viewer inside.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 7 June 2017
  • The group managed to take vestments, the tabernacle and the Holy Host.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
  • In homage to basketball, Hoosiers have built tabernacles where the Word is fast-break.
    — Fred D. Cavinder, Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2018
  • At the top of the altar, a steel case that once contained a $2 million gold tabernacle was cut open and empty.
    — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2022
  • André called his wardrobe his armor, his tabernacle and his sanctuary.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 13 Dec. 2025
  • To remove the tabernacle, thieves had to cut through a metal protective casing.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 31 May 2022
  • Communion rails were removed, ramps up to the altar were added, and the tabernacle was moved behind the altar.
    — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Please, oh please, if anyone has that tabernacle or knows of its whereabouts, notify the authorities at once and turn it in at once.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Rows of pews were replaced by movable chairs, the altar was moved forward into the nave and the tabernacle was relocated to a side chapel.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The criminals cut the sacred tabernacle out of its protective housing.
    — CBS News, 31 May 2022
  • Father Lawrence placed the 40 books of the Bible on a church altar surrounding the tabernacle.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 28 Nov. 2020
  • They were stationed at elbow’s height, framed with stone, and shaped like a tabernacle, lest those about to imbibe forget the consequences that come with having one too many.
    — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Holy Eucharist, bread consecrated as the body of Christ, was taken from the tabernacle and thrown on the altar.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
  • The Holy Eucharist, or communion, kept inside the tabernacle was also tossed all over the alter.
    — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 30 May 2022
  • The history of the concert hall goes back to over a century ago when it was first constructed as a tabernacle for religious gatherings.
    — Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Protestant churches accordingly did away with the tabernacle that housed the Eucharist in Catholic churches.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • The demand of the people, of the families, of the fallen, must permeate here, must be reflected from here, must become a decree engraved on the walls of this tabernacle.
    — David Isaac, Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But working out with Woodland at this tabernacle on Brookside Drive has been a constant along Head’s basketball odyssey.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023
  • The memory of that other space consecrated her own roving tabernacle of Black performance.
    — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Later a religious sister explained to her that Catholics believe that Jesus is present in the Eucharist, in the tabernacle.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Angel statues flanking the tabernacle were decapitated and destroyed, the diocese said.
    — CBS News, 31 May 2022
  • Today, the priest usually faces worshipers at Mass and the tabernacle is often relegated to the sidelines, no longer the center of attention.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • The grove consists of a former summer hotel now rented out for special events, 47 cottages now usually used as weekend getaways, an open-air tabernacle and a series of paths.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 14 July 2017
  • During the liquefaction days, the relic is taken out of the tabernacle and put on display, but Cardarilli says that that if visitors request to see it, it can be shown any day of the year.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Tumino speculated that multiple people were involved in the heist, considering the immense weight of the tabernacle.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • Beside the difference of language, in the Latin Mass the priest faces away from the congregation and instead faces the tabernacle at the front of the church where the Eucharist is kept.
    — William Wan, Washington Post, 24 July 2022

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