Example sentences for: sacred

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

  • The written word was accumulating its own sacred aura even before Homer and the Bible.

  • In 490 b.c. , they captured sacred Delos and razed the settlements on Naxos.

  • Koyasan was already known as a sacred site for ascetic practices when Kobo Daishi, a revered Buddhist priest, teacher, and scholar, received imperial permission to establish a religious community to develop his new Shingon sect in 816.

  • More temples and caves lie on the road back to the boat landing and the buses to the sacred peak.

  • The preeminent islands of this era were Delos, a sacred island and center of religion ruled by Athens; Samos, ruled by the tyrant Polycrates; and Naxos, whose ruler Lygdamis undertook some major building projects.


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