noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
small
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They reverently built a small shrine for the book in one of Mrs Puri's flowerbeds.
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Just past one bad curve, a small shrine has been erected, La Virgen surrounded by three concrete crosses recently whitewashed.
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They had arrived in a shady grove around a small stone shrine .
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In the west of Ireland a small roadside shrine to the Virgin Mary stands almost alongside an equally modest stone circle.
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When we passed a small shrine by the side of the track everyone let out an almighty whoop of greeting.
■ VERB
become
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He was celebrated there as a martyr, and his grave became a shrine , a sacred site, a pilgrimage centre.
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There he found the skeleton of a whale, a sperm whale, which had become a shrine for the natives.
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Q: Indeed, it seems St Joseph's has become a holy shrine to many.
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Her classroom has become a virtual shrine to the Olympics.
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They kept everything, and the bedrooms of the mixing boys became their shrines .
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The mound becomes a temporary shrine .
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His Denbigh Terrace home became a shrine of tin signs advertising elixirs, tobaccos and teas.
build
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They reverently built a small shrine for the book in one of Mrs Puri's flowerbeds.
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My sister and I continue to be venerated by our people, who built shrines and declared national holidays in our honor.
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There I built a shrine and sacrificed a he-goat in the name of the truth.
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Still he wouldn't sell for them to build a shrine , so the cattle began to die.
visit
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On average, 250 pilgrims visit the shrine every weekend from Easter to September.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a Shinto shrine
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the Lenin shrine in Moscow
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both shrines flourish today and co-operate ecumenically.
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Hope then built a beautiful shrine at the other end of the village.
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In the same fashion, they also brought down the Shinto shrine .
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Kalchu took off his shoes and went into the shrine .
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To me, this voyage was something much more-it was a pilgrimage to the shrine of my philosophy.
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Various offerings of Sake, branches and salt were made to the shrine that had been established on the site.
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You were more interested in having us bow before the shrine than teaching students.