Sentence examples for circumambulate from inspiring English sources
The word "circumambulate" is usable in written English and is well written
It can be used when describing the act of walking around something, often in a ritualistic or symbolic manner. Example: "During the festival, participants would circumambulate the sacred shrine as a sign of respect." Alternatives include "walk around" or "circle."
verb
To walk around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
The rods would have to travel from the port of Chittagong on roads that are among the world's deadliest.And if the transport of nuclear material is to circumambulate the urban sprawl of Dhaka, then they will have to cross the Padma.
However, the sage assumed the form of a beetle, pierced a path through the middle of the androgyne, and continued to circumambulate only the male half.
One who is junub (impure) cannot perform the daily ritual prayer, circumambulate the Kaʿbah in Mecca during the major and lesser pilgrimages, touch the Qurʾān or recite its verses, or enter a mosque.
Yet another legend has it that the sage (rishi) Bhringi had vowed to worship only one deity and so failed to circumambulate and prostrate himself before Parvati.
It is preceded by a man carrying a firebrand kindled at the domestic hearth; a goat is sometimes sacrificed en route, and the mourners circumambulate the corpse, which is carried on a bier.
Worshipers visit Buddhist sanctuaries and circumambulate a stupa or a sacred image, and monks are given food and other gifts.
Like many Hindu thinkers, he made an extended pilgrimage, circumambulating India from Rameswaram (part of Adam's Bridge), along the west coast to Badrinath, the source of the holy river Ganges, and returning along the east coast.
Pilgrimages sometimes consist of circumambulating an entire town, such as the sacred city of Varanasi (Benares), a 36-mile (58-km) journey, or the Ganges River from source to sea and back, a trip that when undertaken on foot requires several years.
A procession of patients, led by the chanter, enters the hut and circumambulates the fire, pausing at each of the four directions to sing an appropriate chant.
Members of the tribe of Quraysh circumambulated the Kaʿbah in Mecca (now a central shrine of Islām in Mecca's al-Ḥaram mosque) chanting the praises of al-Lāt, al-ʿUzzā, and Manāt.
Circumambulating in a counterclockwise movement i.e., keeping the left shoulder toward the central object called prasavya, is observed in funeral ceremonies.
