How to Use shrine in a Sentence

shrine

noun

• They erected a shrine to the saint.
• The writer's house has become a shrine to his fans.
• Sounds like an ex shrine to me too.
  — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
• He is said to have draped the shrine in striped red wool.
  — Iqbal Akhtar, The Conversation, 25 May 2026
• There’s a shrine by the road, its iron doors spotted with rust.
  — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
• Her body is set to be placed in a glass shrine in the church on Monday.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 May 2023
• The shrine said Holy Week draws some of its largest crowds of the year.
  — John Odenthal, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
• Some cross the street to a bus stop bench, which has become a shrine to the victims.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
• The greenroom at Largo is a small shrine to great talent.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
• The current watchers of the shrine are Sgt.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
• In her version, though, there was no shrine waiting to be found in the center.
  — Ryan Ruby, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
• The hush of the trees, the shrine bells, the onsen waters of those ancient inns.
  — David Hochman, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
• The attack took place on a Wednesday evening, one of the busiest times for the shrine.
  — Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 8 July 2023
• Flowers by the roadside complete the shrine.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
• Care to visit a 100-plus-year-old shrine with its very own subway stop?
  — ELLE, 27 Jan. 2023
• In Bolivia, some pilgrims made the approach to the shrine on their knees.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The show begins in the lobby, where a shrine to Kate Berlant is set up.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• This is the 71st year the ritual is taking place at the shrine.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2025
• On the wall behind was the shrine’s central altar, bronze doors open on either side.
  — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
• Her initial instinct was to treat it as a shrine, down to keeping the paint colors on the walls.
  — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• Near the head of the tent, Lonnie’s daughters have set up a shrine for Jalon.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Midway through the service, the bishop blessed the shrine grounds with holy water.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
• Khamenei—the son of a poor cleric from the shrine city of Mashhad—had other ideas.
  — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2026
• As the coffin was carried into the shrine, large crowds of mourners pushed and shoved their way to get close to it.
  — ABC News, 8 July 2026
• Kyoto has some 2,000 shrines and temples.
  — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026
• And he’s been there and made a vigil, a little shrine, and paid respects to my character.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
• Kamis can have negative power, too, and shrines are not always portals to peace.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
• Participants will spend the night in tents on the ground of the Shrine and inside the shrine.
  — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2023
• The shrine is Canton is demeaned and the Class of ‘26 stained.
  — Greg Cote february 1, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
• Others mourned as a black flag was raised over the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad.
  — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2026