How to Use pilgrim in a Sentence

pilgrim

noun
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  • Thousands of Muslim pilgrims traveled to Mecca.
  • And so Rome without pilgrims feels like a very strange place to all of us.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Knots of pilgrims and tourists milling about outside drew near.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Also a pilgrim, Safar Ali, 53, stands in the waters near Naing Sharif.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Tuck the hand inside, as Ceruti also did in his own self-portrait as a Catholic pilgrim, painted around the same time.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
  • Roads have been widened, with the 8-mile, four-lane Ram Path guiding pilgrims to the pink sandstone, three-story structure.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Sunday's papal Mass used to draw thousands of pilgrims from around the world to the sprawling square at the Vatican.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The pilgrims, sweating in the morning heat and humidity, would look forward to the cool shade of the forest at the end of their journey.
    — Mahima Jain, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
  • To travel to Jerusalem was far too difficult for most pilgrims.
    — National Geographic, 30 Dec. 2019
  • In the days before the December trek, pilgrims from across the country—and the world—arrive to Mexico City.
    — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Layers of black handprints surround that hole, where thousands of pilgrims stooped to crawl in.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Merchants and pilgrims made their way to the Middle East and Mediterranean world via its caravan routes and docks.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The unrest comes at a delicate time for Jerusalem’s Old City, which on Friday was teeming with pilgrims from around the world.
    — Isabel Debre, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Christian pilgrims used to trek to a shelter on a nearby ridge in order to contemplate the cross.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2023
  • For centuries, pilgrims from far and wide have converged on this city to worship, and to celebrate the day central to their faith.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2020
  • In any other year, tens of thousands of pilgrims from around the world retrace Jesus’ steps in the Holy Week leading up to Easter.
    — Joseph Krauss and Elana Schor, Houston Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The Pewaukee native would dress up as Santa Claus, a pilgrim, a leprechaun and more.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Women walked up to the ark and kissed the smooth Isfahani tiles painted with menorahs and stars of David, acting like Shia pilgrims at their shrines.
    — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
  • For pilgrims themselves, a matching app shows the transportation schedule and which spots are the most crowded.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2019
  • That would be the one who wears a John Carver mask, dresses like a pilgrim, and is picking off people who were shopping that night, one by one.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Some pilgrims from Africa rested shoulder-to-shoulder with Americans in the park.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The Qarmatians were said to have killed scores of pilgrims and absconded with the black stone of the Kaaba—which Muslims believed was sent down from heaven.
    — Ken Chitwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020

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