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Recent Examples of pagodaMore traditional Chinese food is served at the Sea Palace, a floating three-story pagoda near Centraal Station.—Jaymi McCann, theweek, 9 Dec. 2024 The pagoda is filled with precious statues, including a wooden Shakyamuni Buddha covered with gold paint.—Catherine Garcia, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024 The showcase gets more stunning each year and features a 50-foot pagoda.—Sam Allard, Axios, 11 July 2024 State media also reported that five dams, four pagodas and more than 65,000 houses were destroyed by the flooding.—Reuters, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pagoda
Days of unrest convulsed Britain over the next week, as rioters clashed with the police, lit cars on fire, attacked mosques and ransacked businesses.
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Megan Specia,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2025
The image of Nila’s apartment building becomes a catchall for her family, growing up in poverty, and being of Muslim background in a country where mosques are set ablaze and brown people are victims of hate crimes.
In 2021, while an associate curator at one of New York City’s temples of experimental contemporary art, the Swiss institute, curator Daniel Merritt said that art history played a role is his practice, but was not a hill to die on.
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Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
21 Jan. 2025
Time is also spent in the temples and museums of Ulaanbaatar.
Churches, synagogues and mosques become important touchstones in communities ravaged by disasters – now many here are also themselves victims of a disaster.
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Sarah Ventre,
NPR,
12 Jan. 2025
At least five churches, a synagogue, seven schools, two libraries, boutiques, bars, restaurants, banks and groceries were burned.
The elaborate shrines of Shiva and Vishnu — two of the main deities in Hinduism — were built based on 10th- and 12th-century Indian architecture and sit symmetrically across from one another at the entrance of the temple.
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Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
The 47-year-old is general manager of the Pico Rivera Sports Arena, the rodeo ring next to the San Gabriel River that has been a shrine to Mexican horse culture for decades.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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