PILGRIM in a Sentence

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There the Pope touched the white marble shrine and paused for a minute in silent prayer, just like millions of pilgrims before him.

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 Meanings and Examples of PILGRIM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pilgrim
 n.  traveler; one who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  The Palmer awaited not the end of the Jew's vision, but stirred him with his pilgrim's staff.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The pilgrim extricated himself, as if there were contamination in the touch.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  How sweetly on the pilgrim's ear.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  She knew it very well, for it was that beautiful old story of the best life ever lived, and Jo felt that it was a true guidebook for any pilgrim going on a long journey.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
6  But, Amy was a young pilgrim, and just now her burden seemed very heavy.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
7  He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  I put the helm hard a-starboard at the moment when the pilgrim in pink pyjamas, very hot and agitated, appeared in the doorway.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
9  The red-haired pilgrim was beside himself with the thought that at least this poor Kurtz had been properly revenged.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
10  The scene was the hall of Capulet's house, and Romeo in his pilgrim's dress had entered with Mercutio and his other friends.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
11  All were silent, only the pilgrim woman went on in measured tones, drawing in her breath.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII
12  There was one pilgrim, a quiet pockmarked little woman of fifty called Theodosia, who for over thirty years had gone about barefoot and worn heavy chains.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
13  Under guise of a present for the pilgrims, Princess Mary prepared a pilgrim's complete costume for herself: a coarse smock, bast shoes, a rough coat, and a black kerchief.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
14  It was as if a new birth, with stronger assimilations than the first, had converted the forest-land, still so uncongenial to every other pilgrim and wanderer, into Hester Prynne's wild and dreary, but life-long home.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
15  They wandered here and there with their absurd long staves in their hands, like a lot of faithless pilgrims bewitched inside a rotten fence.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
Example Sentence:
1  He was known as the pilgrim Pope visiting more than 100 countries and is generally acknowledged as the most well traveled world leader ever.
2  His is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon.
3  The pilgrims fall to their knees, but up to their soul.
4  There the Pope touched the white marble shrine and paused for a minute in silent prayer, just like millions of pilgrims before him.
5  As described by Chaucer, the cavalcade of Canterbury pilgrims was a motley group.
6  He has hosted Shia clerics from Iraq, plans to send planes full of Shia pilgrims to the country's holy cities, and dangle billions in investment to revive industry in the south.
7  By the mid-twelfth century pilgrims were numerous enough to merit a guidebook.