Example sentences for: grail

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

  • In this they resembled nothing so much as the knights in Monty Python and the Holy Grail , who took comfort in screaming "Run away!

  • Many industry participants have sought to improve assembly productivity, the holy grail for U.S. manufacturers.

  • The tendency to prefer obscure, unproduced recordings seems like the latest version of the old folkie quest for the grail of authenticity.

  • National fortunes depended on the feat, making it the Age of Reason's equivalent to finding the Holy Grail.

  • That Du Bois--who exists in the field of black studies these days as rather the black equivalent of Einstein (theorist), Dr. Johnson (wordsmith), Emerson (humanist), and Kant (moral philosopher), separately and together, as it were--is evoked by the editors in their introduction provides this volume with a pedigree that I suppose they thought it needed, making Gates and Appiah our intellectual knights who have given us the Holy Grail.


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