altar

Example Sentences

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She spent hours in front of this memorial altar, drowning in sadness.

From Literature

But “the economic stakes, and the need for new trade relationships, are too high for us to be putting everything at the altar of diaspora politics.”

From The Wall Street Journal

At one end of her playhouse, Daisy had built a little altar.

From Literature

The remains are being shown in a plexiglass case by the richly-decorated church's altar for the 800th anniversary of his death.

From Barron's

And unlike their trips down the skeleton run, their path to the altar hit a speed bump.

From The Wall Street Journal