Sample Sentences for

pilgrimage

(editor-reviewed)

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

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

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

So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides —and try to understand why he must do so.†  (source) Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

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

She appeared seldom in the book; she was older than the eldest of them by nine years and had married and left home while they were schoolboys; between her and them stood two other sisters; after the birth of the third daughter there had been pilgrimages and pious benefactions in request for a son, for theirs was a wide property and an ancient name; male heirs had come late and, when they came, in a profusion which at the time seemed to promise continuity to the line which, in the tragic event, ended abruptly with them.†  (source) Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1944

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

The railroad had carried the remains of Johnston's army from North Carolina to Atlanta and dumped them there, and from Atlanta they began their pilgrimages afoot.†  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

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

The halls at Evergreen were packed with other relatives now, making pilgrimages; at one point when I passed the room next door, the man with the tubes and machines had a crowd around his bed, all talking softly and huddled together.†  (source) Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You, 1998

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