Thesaurus results for ALTAR

altar

noun

as in pulpit

a table or place which serves as a center of worship or ritual There was a small altar at the front of the room with candles on it.

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Recent Examples of altar Jackie is the kind of woman who has sacrificed everything on the altar of career, as her blunt workhorse and very pregnant second-in-command, Sydney Bloom (Betty Gilpin), consistently calls attention to. —

Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 8 June 2026 Some hide Santa Muerte altars at home from relatives and friends because of the negative connotations. —

Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 7 June 2026 Since glaciers didn’t flow right into Salisbury, the study speculates the stone, thought to have served as an altar, was deposited hundreds of miles east, beneath what is now the North Sea. —

Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 4 June 2026 Anybody who chose this option had to walk past the altar to the front of the church, where the priest waited in a small room. —

Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for altar

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pulpit

Noun

Candice and Timothy show Brittany how ‘church hurt’ stretches out from the pulpit and into cultural norms around gender, sexuality, acceptance.

— Brittany Luse, NPR, 9 June 2026
The Sagrada Familia is a global pulpit, but it's set in a country where Christianity is receding.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 June 2026