How to Use pilgrim in a Sentence

pilgrim

noun
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  • Thousands of Muslim pilgrims traveled to Mecca.
  • To the left is a porter's lodge, to the right a large bench on which pilgrims would sleep.
    — Jim Berkeley, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • The pilgrim collar of her dress touched the cold glass.
    — Longreads, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Sit and on the rocks for a bit—the same ones used by Shinto pilgrims to pray.
    — Laura Studarus, Marie Claire, 5 July 2019
  • Tourists and pilgrims, too, were seized with fear of the unknown.
    — Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 4 Aug. 2019
  • And so Rome without pilgrims feels like a very strange place to all of us.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Once camel trains set off from here with slaves, pilgrims, salt and gold.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • This event is renewed today in the Church, a pilgrim in time.
    — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2017
  • The 5-6 day odyssey drew almost 2 million pilgrims from around the world.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
  • Knots of pilgrims and tourists milling about outside drew near.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • But the bush still stands in the park, marked by a wood cross, a white picket fence, and flowers left by pilgrims.
    — Kristin E. Holmes, Philly.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The street had once hummed with pilgrims and schoolchildren.
    — Hannah Beech Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
  • By the way, Rozek, ever the pilgrim on his own path, doesn't own a computer.
    — Jon Katz, WIRED, 1 Mar. 1995
  • That is one of the reasons that led me to come as a pilgrim in your midst, to thank you and to confirm you in your faith and witness.
    — Andrew Bernard, Washington Examiner, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Bujold was among the 500 pilgrims who made the trip this June to the conference, held this year in Cleveland, Ohio.
    — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
  • But can Skellig Michael survive a new type of pilgrim, the legions of Star Wars fans?
    — Julia Blakely, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Inside, the small, low-ceilinged rooms are peopled with pilgrims.
    — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
  • To the beadles, this is a workplace; to the tourist, an Instagrammable spectacle; to the pilgrim, a place of prayer.
    — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Now a footnote in food history, Lums draws pilgrims from around the state and across the country.
    — miamiherald, 9 May 2017
  • This is the place where the pilgrims landed at Plymouth and where Texas patriots made their last stand at the Alamo.
    — WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • As in, flamingos dressed as turkeys dressed as—wait for it—pilgrims.
    — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 28 Sep. 2018
  • According to legend, pilgrims would have covered the last two and a half miles from the inn to her shrine on their knees.
    — Catherine Fairweather, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Fuente, the Salvadoran pilgrim, is eager to share the fervor of her faith.
    — MarÍa Teresa HernÁndez, ajc, 10 Dec. 2022
  • But in the hills and along the roads, glow sticks and flashlights shone as pilgrims continued walking toward the shrine.
    — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Thousands of pilgrims on their way to shrine or lodged at the base camps in Pahalgam and Sonamarg were asked to return.
    — Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Also a pilgrim, Safar Ali, 53, stands in the waters near Naing Sharif.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The bridges and tunnels are going to be clogged with pilgrims seeking blessings for months.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2017
  • In place of the typical din of tourists and religious pilgrims, the listener can hear shoes on stone in the middle of the day.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • Craig’s Lee is a pilgrim in search of pleasure, sensation, satiety.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
  • In addition to the shroud, pilgrims visited Jesus’ crib, splinters from the cross and Jesus’ foreskin, just to name a few.
    — Eric Vanden Eykel, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024

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