Sample sentences for PILGRIMAGE

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Definition

a journey to a special place — especially a sacred place for religious purposes

A pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.

pilgrimage = a journey to a special place — especially a sacred place for religious purposes

Sometimes when we made a midnight pilgrimage to the bathroom we would find him reading.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

pilgrimage = journey

monks came by on a pilgrimage, followers of Gotama, the Buddha, who were asking to be ferried across the river,
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha

pilgrimage = a journey to a special place — especially a sacred place for religious purposes

I promise to make a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Cobre if I catch him.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

pilgrimage = a religious journey

I decided not to take the children, so I could give myself over to the pilgrimage.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies

pilgrimage = a journey to a special place — especially a sacred place for religious purposes

Atticus was making his slow pilgrimage to the windows, as he had been doing: he would ask a question, then look out, waiting for an answer.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

pilgrimage = journey

They resolved forthwith to make a pilgrimage to Florida, and quaff at morning, noon, and night, from the Fountain of Youth.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
But I think it won't be any kind of pilgrimage.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
Archer remained motionless, gazing at the upper windows as if the end of their pilgrimage had been attained.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
And thinking over the long pilgrimage of his past he accepted it joyfully.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
At this juncture Ralph had the happy idea of proposing to Isabel that she also, under his own escort, should make a pilgrimage to Rome.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
So in 1871 the pilgrimage of the Fisk Jubilee Singers began.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
Don't force me to fight for my life, but let me make a pilgrimage for Gareth's sake.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
This visit, this pilgrimage, made comprehensible, finally, the traces that remained and would always remain, like a needle.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
This pilgrimage can be traced in the letters of two Ohio soldiers, one a nineteen-yearold private and the other a thirty-four-year-old colonel.
James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
But for all their differences it was a romantic pilgrimage.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
They saw more rooms and made more discoveries than Mary had made on her first pilgrimage.
Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The Secret Garden
This prostrate pilgrimage was a common occurrence in Poets' Corner, although it was far less holy than it appeared.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
We were making a pilgrimage across the fourth great ice field to see one of the more celebrated crystal cities.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
Most miserable hour that e'er time saw In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

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