shrine

The 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said attacks on Mecca and Medina province, where Islam's second holiest shrine is located, constituted an "unacceptable and intolerable transgression".

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Down a quiet residential lane in central Taipei, behind the stalls of a farmers market, I found a shrine to the area’s Taoist earth god.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

He had moved nearby to care for his wife’s grandmother, who had looked after the shrine for decades before him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Japan's defence minister paid his respects Saturday at a shrine honouring the country's war dead that has long dogged Tokyo's relations with its Asian neighbours, but Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

“My siblings...none of them made it all the way to the shrine, did they.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Taipei’s grand temples like Longshan and Xingtian are only part of the city’s religious fabric, so one afternoon I went in search of the smaller shrines tucked into its quieter corners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

To Steve Jobs, they will build shrines; to his outgoing successor Tim Cook, they will dedicate case studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Cherry flowers at ancient temples and shrines in Kyoto are particularly popular among visitors and locals.

From Barron's ● 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

The shrines are actually a series of grottoes built out of sponge rock and crystals so that the exterior walls sparkle in the light.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

The Easter moon, golden-white and holy, looked down at her, shrined under the long sharp arch of the beech-trees; it was like going up and up towards a dim sanctuary where the holiest sat enthroned.

From The Flaw in the Crystal by May Sinclair

The golden air is thick with suggestions of dim, celestial faces, but nothing mars the imposing solitude of the Queen of Heaven, shrined alone, throned in the luminous azure.

From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton

So rest, O Joy-givers! your kingdoms are afar, Yet here I own you, shrined in pearls and gold, The sovereign captives of my loyal breast.

From Songs of Womanhood by Laurence Alma-Tadema

Yet we cannot forget thee, for, shrined in the heart, Is the memory of virtues that will not depart,— Generosity, candor, integrity, worth, An assemblage of all that is lovely on earth.

From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Eliza Paul Gurney

Each shrined a son as special favourite, my lord taking to his bosom the younger, Terence--whilst my lady doted with a hungry love upon the elder, Shane.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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 Burton Egbert Stevenson

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 William Michael Rossetti

"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 Sidney Lanier

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 Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

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.