Examples of “ark” in a Sentence

noun The large boat built by Noah in the Bible story, used to save his family and pairs of animals from a great flood.

• The children's Bible showed animals filing two by two into the ark.
• According to the story, Noah gathered his family inside the ark before the rains began.
• Our school play featured a cardboard ark painted brown with a blue sea.

noun Any large, flat-bottomed boat, or (more loosely) anything that offers protection and refuge.

• The old canal boats were sometimes called arks.
• For many refugees, the shelter became an ark of safety.
• The little houseboat was a floating ark, drifting slowly along the river.

noun A cabinet at the front of a synagogue that holds the Torah scrolls.

• The rabbi opened the ark to remove the Torah for the reading.
• Everyone stood as the curtain of the ark was drawn back.
• The synagogue's carved wooden ark stands against the wall facing Jerusalem.