temple

Example Sentences

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The attack on the historic temple was the first such incident in the city since the Holocaust, according to local officials.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

And their seemingly haphazard jumble is purposeful, reminding us that this is not a temple but a workshop, a place of ongoing activity in which new and experimental art is incubated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

In China, red lanterns could guide a traveller to safety in cold winter alleyways, be symbols of power outside an imperial hall, or act as a call to religious devotion when hung in a temple.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Once a month, he’d cook some 400 hot meals that the temple would send to a homeless shelter in Stockton, and he’d also prepared food for people displaced by wildfires, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

I said good-bye to the widow’s unmarked stone, where she was buried after she died, and where I stayed until the gravediggers found me and carried me to the temple.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri