How to Use pilgrimage in a Sentence

pilgrimage

noun
  • The poet's grave site has become a place of pilgrimage.
  • He made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
  • The family went on a pilgrimage to historical battlefields.
  • The tradition of pilgrimage is important in Islam.
  • Oprah’s best friend, Gayle King, has made the pilgrimage too, of course.
    Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This pilgrimage was a key turning point in the success of the movement.
    Alexia Salvatierra, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
  • So that was a Buddhist pilgrimage, as opposed to this is the Catholic.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The Menu tells the story of what happens to a group of gastronomes who have made the pilgrimage to eat a meal in the hands of Slowik and his brigade.
    Gabe Ulla, Town & Country, 17 Nov. 2022
  • For fans, the shows are a pilgrimage, and a rediscovery of the joys of mass gatherings.
    Ben Sisario, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • First prize is two tickets for the church’s pilgrimage to Lourdes.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • Oenophiles have been making the pilgrimage to Napa Valley since the 1970s.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2023
  • International anglers make pilgrimages to the banks of the Rio Grande in the hope of hooking its record brown trout.
    Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
  • It was once filled with modern buildings, though part of the city rests on the site of an eponymous ancient city that is still a place of pilgrimage for Christians.
    Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Resources are being marshaled to help those who made the expensive pilgrimage to the playa.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The whole process felt a bit like a pilgrimage — driving over 1,000 miles to face thick sheets of rain and waves of thunder — but eventually the venue gave the OK to move inside.
    Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • For the next decade, Hutton made an annual pilgrimage to Lausanne to check in on the project and interview Markram.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2022
  • One of my favorite trails so far was the Kumano Kodo, an ancient pilgrimage route.
    Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 18 June 2023
  • With some meddling from their priest, the three women are selected for a pilgrimage of a lifetime.
    Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
  • The bitter pilgrimage by Grets had less to do with religion than with mourning, and many others made the same trip on Sunday.
    Hanna Arhirova and Lori Hinnant, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • To get to the City is a pilgrimage; to view it, life-changing; to understand it, a form of mental sublimation, or so it has been said.
    Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Giles Coode-Adams lives in a 15th-century house in Coggeshall that was once a resting point on the pilgrimage route to Canterbury.
    Stanley Reed, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • For many, this was a pilgrimage of faith — a kind of rejoinder to the high-tech dictates of hard facts that have left us so little room for magic and mystery.
    Matt Bradley, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • After seeing a jaw-dropping Dior gown in a client's closet, Mrs. Harris makes a pilgrimage to Paris to make her own dreams come true.
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 30 June 2023
  • Going to Abbey Road is almost like taking a pilgrimage.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2023
  • In the 1990s, the district’s famous Moon Night Club was a pilgrimage site for top dancers, many of whom attained success as celebrity musicians.
    Se-Woong Koo, Curbed, 4 Nov. 2022
  • This is my pilgrimage to the Sacred Mountain of Protection.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Every member of the team here in Las Vegas made the pilgrimage to Kohler’s booth to check out the somewhat polarizing product.
    Verge Staff, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2024
  • And, in both cases, these writers use words and characters to bring back the great treasures of their literary pilgrimages.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The others are the profession of faith; praying five times a day; giving to charity; and making the pilgrimage to Mecca.
    Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • How many people can afford a luxury pilgrimage to Bhutan?
    Lipi Roy, Md, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024

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