circumambulate
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They pack into the Grand Mosque in Mecca to circumambulate the Kaaba.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
And Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, without social distancing for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2021
Rangarajan is addressing the morning’s temple goers who, like a school of fish, circumambulate the temple’s inner sanctum chanting the Hindu deity Balaji’s name in vague unison.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2017
At any time of the day, hundreds of people circumambulate the stupa, chanting mantras, kneading their mala beads and twirling prayer wheels.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2012
Round this there is a dark and narrow passage which pilgrims circumambulate.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund
He’s deep into Shambhala Buddhism and has circumambulated Mount Kailash in Tibet.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2017
I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...
From Time Magazine Archive
Hip to hip, arms interwoven to hold hands, Desdemona and Lefty circumambulated the captain, once, twice, and then again, spinning the cocoon of their life together.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Three separate times, after that, I visited the Great Mosque and circumambulated the Ka’ba.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
It was being circumambulated by thousands upon thousands of praying pilgrims, both sexes, and every size, shape, color, and race in the world.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
The Brooklyn-based photographer Bryan Thomas has spent much of the past two years in his native Florida, circumambulating the coast and taking pictures of the sea and the sky and the people.
From The New Yorker ● May 19, 2017
We’ve already done a lot of circumambulating, negotiating temples and sacred objects in a clockwise direction.
From Washington Post
We’ve already done a lot of circumambulating, negotiating temples and sacred objects in a clockwise direction.
From Washington Post
Yegey was for circumambulating, but Obsle went to the point.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
We are not prone to wonder, but we looked with some surprise At the owner of those strangely circumambulating eyes.
From Rowing by Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers
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