Example sentences for: calvary

How can you use “calvary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You’ll find that the Old City’s myriad colours, sounds, smells, and tastes stir the senses; the Temple Mount’s architecture can take your breath away; pilgrims tracing Christ’s journey to Calvary along the Via Dolorosa remain a deeply moving sight; and the views from the Mount of Olives are stunning.

  • The treasury contains what purports to be Hungary’s richest store of religious objects, including a crystal cross from the ninth century and the 15th-century Calvary of King Mátyás.

  • The three doorways, with stonework dripping like stalactites, represent Faith, Hope, and Charity, and are loaded with sculptures depicting angel choirs and musicians, and Biblical episodes such as the birth and youth of Jesus, the Flight into Egypt, the Slaughter of the Innocents, the Tree of Calvary, and much, much more.

  • Like “sparrow grass,” “calvary” for cavalry , one of Mr. Lederer's questionable examples of Slurvian, falls midway between pure mispronunciation and misunderstood expression, perpetuated by a massive misuse.

  • Authentic John Neely Bryan Log Cabin!Philip Johnson cenotaph honoring JFK!Replica of Christ's Tomb at Calvary!Swearing-in of Texas son LBJ!Fifty-two tons of cast-iron longhorns stampeding in Pioneer Park!OBSESSION**GENTLEMAN'S CLUB***** Live Exotic Female Entertainers Continuous ***O Corporate Cowboy America!Your love-need misunderstood as greed!A hunger for sanctity misunderstood as rapacity!As if great grinding jaws haven't their theologies and laws!O Dallas America's conscience!O Dallas our miracle of Pentecost!O Dallas of refrigerated verticals!O Dallas of Muzak-tombs!O Dallas the taste of fresh paper money!O Dallas these are the days of vengeance, that all things written may be fulfilled!O Dallas.


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