pilgrimage

in a sentence

The fifth obligation of every Muslim is a pilgrimage.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

Like everyone else, I'd felt obligated to make a pilgrimage there, to visit Castle Anorak.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

They even took control of the famous shrine of a Sufi saint, Pir Baba, which was a pilgrimage site.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

For a moment it seemed pointless, this annual pilgrimage to a home that continued to reject me, and I wondered if I should go.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

A lot of uglies had seen the burning message on the night of the escape, or had heard about it, and the nightly pilgrimages out to the ruins slowly increased, until sparklers wavered atop high buildings from midnight until dawn.†  (source) Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005

The Zen Gnostic Church was expanding exponentially and I became a true believer, appearing on HTV talk shows and searching for my Places of Power with all of the devoutness of a pre-Hegira Muslim pilgrimaging to Mecca.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

I bow to the west and kiss the ground and promise that I will do zakat, I will do namaz, I will fast during Ramadan and when Ramadan has passed I will go on fasting, I will commit to memory every last word of His holy book, and I will set on a pilgrimage to that sweltering city in the desert and bow before the Ka'bah too.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

An English traveler at the beginning of the nineteenth century, referring to the journey by canoe and mule that could last as long as fifty days, had written: "This is one of the most miserable and uncomfortable pilgrimages that a human being can make."†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1988

Sometimes when we made a midnight pilgrimage to the bathroom we would find him reading.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Later she lit incense, rang the bell, and vowed that she'd make pilgrimages to the shrines at Tirupati and Velankani if they released Ghosh alive.†  (source) Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, 2009

Even Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales (1384), while neither they nor their tales are inevitably holy, are making an Easter pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, and much of their talk invokes the Bible and religious teaching.  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Farmers and maids, cooks and handymen, carpenters and all the children in town, made regular pilgrimages to the Store.†  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

I promise to make a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Cobre if I catch him.  (source) Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, 1952