ALTAR in a Sentence

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110 example sentences for ALTAR, such as:

1. The victim was tied to a sacrificial altar.
2. People were genuflecting in front of the altar.
3. Father Arnall sat at a table to the left of the altar.
4. His stealing of the altar cloth was a very sacrilegious act.
5. Pope John Paul II knelt in his white robes before the simple altar.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALTAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
altar
 n.  raised structure on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity
Classic Sentence: (96 in 7 pages)
1  The rector would be there in a cope of black and gold and there would be tall yellow candles on the altar and round the catafalque.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  He remembered the summer evening he had been there to be dressed as boatbearer, the evening of the Procession to the little altar in the wood.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  But to drink the altar wine out of the press and be found out by the smell was a sin too: but it was not terrible and strange.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  The Blessed Sacrament had been removed from the tabernacle and the first benches had been driven back so as to leave the dais of the altar and the space before it free.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  In a dark corner of the chapel at the gospel side of the altar a stout old lady knelt amid her copious black skirts.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  The yellow gas-flames arose before his troubled vision against the vapoury sky, burning as if before an altar.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  Their dull piety and the sickly smell of the cheap hair-oil with which they had anointed their heads repelled him from the altar they prayed at.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  Father Arnall sat at a table to the left of the altar.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  The priest rose and, turning towards the altar, knelt upon the step before the tabernacle in the fallen gloom.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  The candles on the high altar had been extinguished but the fragrance of incense still floated down the dim nave.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  The altar was heaped with fragrant masses of white flowers; and in the morning light the pale flames of the candles among the white flowers were clear and silent as his own soul.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  He knelt before the altar with his classmates, holding the altar cloth with them over a living rail of hands.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  Cranly pushed solemnly through the throng of students, linking Stephen and Temple like a celebrant attended by his ministers on his way to the altar.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  There he lay, solemn and copious, vested as for the altar, his large hands loosely retaining a chalice.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
15  He was sober, thrifty and pious; he went to the altar every first Friday, sometimes with her, oftener by himself.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
Example Sentence:
1  In answer to my inquiries, she informed me it was a covering for the altar of a new church lately erected.
2  The apotheosis of a Roman emperor was designed to insure his eternal greatness: people would worship at his altar forever.
3  Shattering the altar and trampling the holy objects underfoot, the invaders desecrate the sanctuary.
4  His stealing of the altar cloth was a very sacrilegious act.
5  Why, Jane, what would you have? I fear you will compel me to go through a private marriage ceremony, besides that performed at the altar.
6  Preceding the bride to the altar, the flower girl will strew rose petals along the aisle.
7  The victim was tied to a sacrificial altar.
8  The church was destroyed in the bombing but the altar survived intact.
9  The water fountain became an altar, standing on marble pillars and graced by its own fan design.
10  People were genuflecting in front of the altar.
11  The bride's father traditionally walks with her to the altar to give her away.
12  Pope John Paul II knelt in his white robes before the simple altar.
13  On Sunday, Americans once again will gather inside palatial stadiums and around big-screen televisions to worship at the altar of the country's most popular sport.
14  Besides eating the treats, the observant place mochi on temple altars to pay respect to the food that sustains us.