a place that is considered sacred (as within a religion)
for centuries pilgrims have traveled to the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket in Canterbury, England
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Recent Examples of shrineThe Waldorf-Astoria Reborn Considered as shrine to all things Art Deco, Manhattan’s Waldorf-Astoria has just reopened after an eight-year restoration.—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2025 Ed boarded up that section of the home, keeping it as an untouched shrine to his mother, per Investigation Discovery.—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025 In this début novel, a former history professor in Mumbai encounters a mother and her sick baby at a shrine of the Virgin Mary in 1978—a chance meeting that binds the two families together for nearly thirty years.—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025 Flowers by the roadside complete the shrine.—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shrine
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sanctuary
Noun
Water from a creek that ran alongside the church's two-story building overflowed and poured into the first-floor sanctuary.
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La Risa R. Lynch,
jsonline.com,
23 Oct. 2025
Once a sanctuary from the outside world, the hotel has become a haunting cage, and both women long to escape.
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