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Six example sentences with consecrate, each labelled with its topic.
The chapel floor was laid over consecrated ground, so the builders were forbidden to move a single old marker.
Architecture
Pilgrims walked for weeks to reach a consecrated hill where kings had been crowned for four hundred years.
History
The novel closes in a consecrated garden where the villagers bury their dead and no one raises a voice.
Literature
The abbey's choir school treats the chapel as consecrated space, and rehearsals there begin and end in silence.
Music
The altarpiece was painted for a consecrated chapel, and the museum that owns it now hangs it at the original height.
Art
Visitors must remove their shoes before stepping onto the consecrated floor of the shrine, even in winter.
Travel
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