Sentence examples for altar in from inspiring English sources

The table is his altar in every sense.

Altar, in religion, a raised structure or place that is used for sacrifice, worship, or prayer.

Bishop Egan sat at the altar, in the first row of several bishops.

Then the mourners were invited to light candles near the altar in Ms. Crossan's memory.

He was laid to rest near the altar in the new chapel.

He was at the altar in his robe on the day he was shot and killed.

Ms. Kirkland also said that Ms. Minnelli started dancing at the altar in happiness.

On a stone altar in this valley, it is said, the Canaanites sacrificed children to the god Moloch.

In prison, she built an altar in her cell and said she had repeated ecstatic religious visions.

Members of the local government and descendants of the sage took turns at an altar in his honor.

The Sāsānian town was circular in plan and had a high tower topped by a fire altar in the centre.