Sentence examples for make offerings from inspiring English sources

Worshippers come to make offerings of flowers, incense, silver, and gold.

But on the third day following the new moon, they make offerings to the guardian spirits (emandwa), and they also make offerings at the shrines of ancestors (emizimu) of up to three generations back.

During the Japanese festival of Bon (Obon), two altars are constructed, one to make offerings to the spirits of dead ancestors and the other to make offerings to the souls of those dead who have no peace.

Before each ascent, they make offerings of coca leaves to the peaks they depend on for their livelihood.

In parts of India, people trooped to temples to make offerings to appease the angry sea-goddess.

The stage we observe has a shrine on our left, where characters sometimes make offerings to gods.

In February of 1997, when Deng Xiaoping died, thousands of Shenzhen residents gathered to make offerings at the billboard.

Then the men move to the village altar and make offerings of sacred bread and goats' cheese to the gods.

To maintain them, devotees will have to make offerings to them twice a day, seven days a week.

Instead, pilgrims make offering to sacred stones from Mount Rinjani, the volcano that dominates the island.

Nobles and vassals made offerings of gold and precious stones to show their loyalty.