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Khamenei was laid to rest at the shrine of Imam Reza, Iran's holiest Shia Muslim site, marking the end of six days of public mourning ceremonies in five cities across Iran and neighbouring Iraq.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

At the shrine, dozens of clerics stood ready to pray over the coffin before it was carried on to the city of Karbala.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

He'd done the same thing a day earlier at another shrine to US togetherness, Mount Rushmore.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

The trust that manages the shrine said it had accepted the resignation of general secretary Champat Rai and replaced him with an interim official.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Each morning I made my puja at the kitchen shrine, careful to present an offering of fruit or a few scattered flower petals.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

After Najaf, Khamenei's body will be flown to Karbala, about 60 kilometres north, for another procession that will culminate at the shrines of Imam Hussein and his brother Abbas.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

But “Ankhmerwer”—gorgeously inscribed and illustrated and sprinkled with glimmering gold shrines, crowns, birds, gods and sun disks—rewards close looking and empathetic eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

In a salty touch, the first thing Kenna does is remove his roadside cross, claiming he hated memorial shrines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

Speaking on behalf of the Adunni Olorisha Trust, Akinsanya said the carver's "craftsmanship is visible in the ritual figures, majestic pillars, and beautifully crafted roofs adorning many of the shrines".

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

Some of the visitors make shrines, leave flowers at her statue, or give small offerings to the sea.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Here Auld Wat, Sir Walter's grandsire seven times removed, reigned a king among Border reivers, whose deeds of derring-do have been long shrined by the balladists, and graven deep on the tablets of memory.

From In the Border Country by W. S.

Wherefore her heart, that had shrined a god, was now empty.

From The Stars in the Pool A Prose Poem for Lovers by Wallace, Edna Kingsley

Touch not the ark where purity in woman's form is shrined!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Let’s live to-day so it shall be, When shrined within the memory, As free from self-inflicted sorrows As are our hopes of our to-morrows.

From The Girl Wanted by Waterman, Nixon

NOT alone because of their good meat and drink are three meals shrined at the heart of these following impressions.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

Bosomed with the Blessed One, He shall mind her of her Son,    Once so folded from all harms     In her shrining arms.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

"May all that cling to sprays of time, like me, Be sweetly wafted over sky and sea By rose-breaths shrining maidens like to thee!"

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney

The wisest soul, by anguish torn,   Will soon unlearn the lore it knew; And when the shrining casket's worn,   The gem within will tarnish too.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

Elsewhere he speaks of Tweed shrining the music of his cradle song, and the requiem he would most prefer—may that day be long in coming!

From In the Border Country by W. S.

Bosomed with the Blessed One, He shall mind her of her Son, Once so folded from all harms, In her shrining arms.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert