How to Use high altar in a Sentence

high altar

noun

• Next came the high altar and the nave, followed by the bases of the church façade around 1190.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 16 Apr. 2019
• The main church seated close to 300, and had a high altar and two side altars.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2017
• In 1182, under the reign of the new king, Philip II, the high altar was consecrated.
  — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
• His coronation chair will stand on the intricate floor in front of the abbey’s high altar.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were among other royal family members, right at the foot of the high altar.
  — Time, 19 Sep. 2022
• The Aedicule was rebuilt, but but the high altar set up by the Crusaders east of the tomb vanished in the subsequent renovation.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018
• After the Crusaders left, the Greek Orthodox reclaimed much of the church, including the Aedicule, the small building sheltering the tomb, and the central nave and high altar to the east.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018
• But Roth was too moralistic, too observant at the high altar of modernism, too prissy to get into the funk and gunk of true swingdom.
  — James Wolcott, Vanities, 24 May 2018
• The unidentified woman died in her 20s and was buried on a bed of seashells near the priory’s high altar—a clear indication of her high status.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
• Even without the fire that damaged the medieval cathedral's roof, spire and high altar, older structures sometimes need loving repairs after years of weather and massive foot traffic take their toll.
  — James Carroll, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2019
• In its place now, in the high altar of the oratory, hangs a copy commissioned in 2009 and painted from photographs of the original, a plucky facsimile that looks nothing like an authentic Caravaggio.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• Before disassembly, the component parts of large items like the high altar were carefully labeled, photographed and documented, so each artifact could one day be put back together like a giant, sacred jigsaw puzzle.
  — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024