How to Use altar in a Sentence

altar

noun

• Two sculpted angels around the altar were destroyed, with one missing its head.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2022
• But will their relationships survive the real world and make it to the altar?
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• Other key finds include a bronze sacrificial altar, a giant bronze mask, and a bronze statue with a human head and a snake’s body.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2022
• But the brainy and independent Kate doesn’t want a husband and the unlikely couple match wits and fists all the way to the altar.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2022
• The drummer and his bride were married by a priest in a clifftop ceremony before a gilded, candlelit altar covered in dark red roses.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 28 June 2022
• Here, the floors and walls lined with rows of styrofoam figureheads fashioned themselves into an altar of Black beauty.
  — Akilah Sailers, Essence, 30 Sep. 2024
• In pit 8, archaeologists found yet more elaborate bronze work, including heads with gold masks, an altar and a dragon with a pig's nose.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 15 June 2022
• Another altar found in 1914 confirmed that the fort had been called Vindolanda.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 June 2022
• This cathedral actually houses a rather morbid and disturbing altar of human skulls.
  — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• The pair became engaged but Damian, 31, chose to not go through with marrying Giannina while at the altar.
  — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2022
• There's an uncomfortable kneel-at-the-altar quality in the recent sagas, which complicates and even defeats the strides in representation.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 June 2022
• Her grandparents built a stone nicho, a household altar encasing the Virgin of Guadalupe and other saints, on the front lawn, to thank God for giving them a home.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 19 June 2022
• At the altar, Father Jarmus placed gold crowns on both the bride and groom, who were later draped in cape-like Ethiopian wedding garments called kabas as part of the ceremony.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022
• Guests took their seats, and the couple walked to the altar.
  — Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• To me, those tiny altars were the pilot lights of our house.
  — Victor Lodato, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Fame trumps all, and the media fawn and favor at the altar.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2023
• Make sure to cleanse the altar with sage or sweetgrass.
  — Nena Farrell, Sunset Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
• And what’s the deal with Taissa’s out-of-body episodes and creepy altar in the basement?
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
• Standing hand in hand at the altar, my heart skipped a beat.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
• The orb will be placed in King Charles' right hand before its placed at the altar.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• Does that open the door wider for Skydance to get Paramount to the altar?
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 21 May 2024
• The bride met the groom at the altar wearing a Monique Lhuillier dress and bolero.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024
• The former couple were one of the few matches from the show who made it down the altar.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 3 Jan. 2024
• The relics will be displayed on a table in the center aisle near the altar.
  — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2023
• Wipe down the altar and the items on it before placing them back.
  — Zayda Rivera, Parents, 2 July 2024
• An old man in a driving hat takes a seat by the altar, leans over, and ties his shoes.
  — Anna Deforest, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• This is Williams’ fourth time at the altar, about a year and a half after the death of his third wife, Mary Jane Thomas.
  — al, 12 Sep. 2023
• It is then placed on the altar before the moment of crowning.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 May 2023
• Channing Tatum and Zoë Kravitz are headed to the altar!
  — Melody Chiu, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• The issue is that his great-uncle jilted my great-aunt at the altar in the 1970s.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024