temples

Example Sentences

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“We should remember it every day of our lives, and we do. We still mourn the Temples of Jerusalem.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Certain fountain drinks, including Shirley Temples and Creamsicles, were also cut from the menu.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2025

Jews revere it as the location of two Biblical Temples and it is the holiest site in Judaism.

From BBC • May 26, 2025

The phrase first came into my life as a way my partner would justify ordering Shirley Temples, but the more I thought about childlike wonder, the more I began to notice it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024

But before that I had felt a stranger, more frightening thing than hatred for all the Shirley Temples of the world.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison