Example sentences for: holiest

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

  • He inveighed against the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam's holiest sites.

  • Bali’s highest peak, at 3,142 m (10,309 ft), is also its holiest.

  • By about 715, the El-Aksa Mosque, third holiest place of prayer in Islam (after Mecca and Medina), had been built on the southern side of the Temple Mount.

  • 2, 2001 (in which Nashiri is described as widely known to be one of al Qaeda's most committed terrorists and, according to one of his mujahideen colleagues, so extreme in his ferocity in waging jihad that he "would commit a terrorist act 'in Mecca inside the Ka'aba itself ' [the holiest site in Islam] if he believed there was a need to do so").

  • The Kingdom is one of the world's most religiously conservative societies, and its identity is closely bound to its religious links, especially its position as the guardian of Islam's two holiest sites.


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