Altar means: A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites. Related words include table or structure. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Altar in practice.
Altar in a sentence
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Altar meaning
- A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
- A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
- Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
Synonyms of Altar
Example sentences (20)
Even though there was a lot of stress involved in preparing for the wedding, the two easily said “yes” at the altar.
It’s not like Jones is genuflecting at the altar of everyone he mentions, either; many now-disgraced figures feature.
A contemporary painting representing Jozef and a pregnant Wiktoria Ulma with their children was revealed near the altar.
He said the open merit category “cannot be sacrificed at the altar of vote-bank politics or divisive agendas”.
Bradshaw wore this gown in the first Sex And The City movie, when she was left at the altar by Mr (played by Chris Noth).
The Sceptre and Rod are taken from the altar and given to the Archbishop of Wales and the Primus of Scotland by the Dean.
Altar of the Child Jesus and the relic of the manger in the Church of St. Catherine (Basilica of the Nativity) in Bethlehem.
If you manage to bring these to an altar and cleanse them, you can trade them in for unique items only purchasable with them.
That Apple went to such lengths is not just Apple worshipping at the altar of “user experience”, although Apple does do that.
Observers believe that the good recommendations were sacrificed on the altar of the third term agenda.
As no sampling of the Altar Stone is permitted today, we used thin slices of the collected during historical archaeological digs.
In the only times we see her alone, she prays and cries at a little hand-made altar, perhaps to her mother, perhaps to God or Gaia.
Daredevil climbs upon the altar to be sacrificed even though he has no idea what will happen next.
Ordained in 1972, Father Lenczycki was accused of molesting at least nine altar boys in the 1980s.
Ogaba grew up as a Roman Catholic and even served as an altar boy in Finsbury Park, north London.
There’s a big dining room on the mezzanine floor, over where the original altar would have been.
Also notable is that his daughter, Tijuana, was the first female altar server at St. Benedict’s.
A horseshoe-shaped altar was the most unique of the designs, and thick layers of ash—which was rich in charred bones—showed steady use.
Many of the shapes and ornaments of a church have theological underpinnings: The central altar reveals the centrality of the Eucharist.
On Sunday, an inaugural Mass will be held featuring special rites to consecrate the main altar.
Common combinations with altar
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the altar 133×
- altar of 39×
- an altar 25×
- altar and 15×
- altar boy 8×
- altar to 7×
- altar in 6×
- altar boys 5×
- altar server 5×
- altar stone 5×
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The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word altar. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.