How to Use pilgrimage in a Sentence

pilgrimage

noun

• The poet's grave site has become a place of pilgrimage.
• He made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
• The family went on a pilgrimage to historical battlefields.
• The tradition of pilgrimage is important in Islam.
• Oprah’s best friend, Gayle King, has made the pilgrimage too, of course.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• This pilgrimage was a key turning point in the success of the movement.
  — Alexia Salvatierra, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
• So that was a Buddhist pilgrimage, as opposed to this is the Catholic.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2023
• The Menu tells the story of what happens to a group of gastronomes who have made the pilgrimage to eat a meal in the hands of Slowik and his brigade.
  — Gabe Ulla, Town & Country, 17 Nov. 2022
• For fans, the shows are a pilgrimage, and a rediscovery of the joys of mass gatherings.
  — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• First prize is two tickets for the church’s pilgrimage to Lourdes.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• Oenophiles have been making the pilgrimage to Napa Valley since the 1970s.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2023
• International anglers make pilgrimages to the banks of the Rio Grande in the hope of hooking its record brown trout.
  — Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
• It was once filled with modern buildings, though part of the city rests on the site of an eponymous ancient city that is still a place of pilgrimage for Christians.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• Resources are being marshaled to help those who made the expensive pilgrimage to the playa.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• The whole process felt a bit like a pilgrimage — driving over 1,000 miles to face thick sheets of rain and waves of thunder — but eventually the venue gave the OK to move inside.
  — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• For the next decade, Hutton made an annual pilgrimage to Lausanne to check in on the project and interview Markram.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2022
• One of my favorite trails so far was the Kumano Kodo, an ancient pilgrimage route.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 18 June 2023
• With some meddling from their priest, the three women are selected for a pilgrimage of a lifetime.
  — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
• The bitter pilgrimage by Grets had less to do with religion than with mourning, and many others made the same trip on Sunday.
  — Hanna Arhirova and Lori Hinnant, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
• To get to the City is a pilgrimage; to view it, life-changing; to understand it, a form of mental sublimation, or so it has been said.
  — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2022
• Giles Coode-Adams lives in a 15th-century house in Coggeshall that was once a resting point on the pilgrimage route to Canterbury.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• For many, this was a pilgrimage of faith — a kind of rejoinder to the high-tech dictates of hard facts that have left us so little room for magic and mystery.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2023
• After seeing a jaw-dropping Dior gown in a client's closet, Mrs. Harris makes a pilgrimage to Paris to make her own dreams come true.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 30 June 2023
• Going to Abbey Road is almost like taking a pilgrimage.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2023
• In the 1990s, the district’s famous Moon Night Club was a pilgrimage site for top dancers, many of whom attained success as celebrity musicians.
  — Se-Woong Koo, Curbed, 4 Nov. 2022
• This is my pilgrimage to the Sacred Mountain of Protection.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• Every member of the team here in Las Vegas made the pilgrimage to Kohler’s booth to check out the somewhat polarizing product.
  — Verge Staff, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2024
• And, in both cases, these writers use words and characters to bring back the great treasures of their literary pilgrimages.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• The others are the profession of faith; praying five times a day; giving to charity; and making the pilgrimage to Mecca.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• So, Muncy agreed, becoming one of six Dodgers hitters who made the trek to Driveline this winter in a pilgrimage organized by the team.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024