Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
Go
Word:
shrine
IPA transcription: [ʃɹ'aɪn]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
shrine
Meaning:
a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
enshrine, shrine
Meaning:
enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral"
Usage examples
A FLORIDA SHRINE.
Darreuch is my shrine."
"I come here on a pilgrimage to a shrine where peace is.
At Erech she had a shrine in the temple of the sky god Anu.
As for Queen Elizabeth, let each one of us dedicate to her a shrine in his soul.
The room was now in dusk, save for the bulbs which made the portrait shine forth like a wayside shrine.
Tell me, my Robert, is it not that this, THIS is my true temple, and the other was but a humble shrine frequented by outcasts?'
Silently she would slip out to the little shrine and pour out passionate words of prayer that just one little soul might be permitted to live.
"Divinely led by love's bright flame, To this lone temple's shrine we come; And as yon beacon meets our eye, To dream, perchance, of days gone by."
"That cloudy shrine we view on high, Where my lost love may dwell unseen, Looks gloomy now to this sad eye That looks with tears on what has been."