Example sentences for: holy

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

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

  • To deal with the small communities of Jews and Nestorian Christian “heretics,” who had settled down on the Malabar coast in the mists of antiquity, the then Archbishop of Goa opened a local branch of the Holy Inquisition.

  • 3. Usama Bin Ladin, "Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places," Aug. 23, 1996 (trans.

  • 9. Copies of the declarations issued by "The Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places" taking credit for the operation were recovered from a raid in Baku, Azerbaijan, after the bombings in September 1998.

  • May: Assisi: Calendimaggio Christian and pagan festival; Naples: Miracle of San Gennaro (liquefaction of the saint’s blood); Camogli (Riviera): Fish Festival, communal fish-fry in giant pan; Gubbio: wooden candle race, crossbow competition; Orvieto: Pentecost feast of the Palombella (Holy Ghost)


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