Sample Sentences forpilgrimage (editor-reviewed)
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A pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.pilgrimage = a journey to a special place for religious reasons
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The author’s latest novel traces the protagonist’s pilgrimage from a small rural town to the bustling city, symbolizing her journey of self-discovery.pilgrimage = a journey to a special place
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Many devout Hindus undertake a pilgrimage to the holy city of Varanasi in India, where they perform rituals and prayers along the banks of the sacred Ganges River.pilgrimage = a journey to a special place for religious reasons
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The fifth obligation of every Muslim is a pilgrimage. (source)
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Sometimes when we made a midnight pilgrimage to the bathroom we would find him reading. (source)pilgrimage = journey
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Like everyone else, I'd felt obligated to make a pilgrimage there, to visit Castle Anorak. (source)pilgrimage = journey to a special place
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They even took control of the famous shrine of a Sufi saint, Pir Baba, which was a pilgrimage site. (source)pilgrimage = religious journey
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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)
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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)
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I promise to make a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Cobre if I catch him. (source)pilgrimage = a religious journey
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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)
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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)pilgrimage = journey to a special place
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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)
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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)pilgrimage = religious journey
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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)
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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)
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