Example sentences for: saintly

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

  • To Sheehy, Dukakis and Reagan and Hillary Clinton are case studies, just like the ones laid out in Passages : Rosalyn, the Jewish-American princess and wife who had to flee to Marin County to find herself; Mia, who enslaved herself to a saintly philosopher and had to divorce him to find herself; Donald Babcock, the Hotchkiss and Yale graduate who unconsciously emulated his father in everything he did, and who, Sheehy implied, had damn well better go through a crisis in order to find himself, and soon.

  • Another important citation is from Allen Ginsberg's Howl, where he has seen The best minds in my generation destroyed by madness,...who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy.

  • Tourists are encouraged to visit the cathedral in conjunction with the Cathedral Museum next door, a treasure-trove of silver monstrances and candelabra, saintly relics, Gothic paintings, and Baroque altars.

  • The saintly assassin draws the line at shooting a little boy, however, so the kingpin, along with Jürgen Prochnow and other killers with scarred-in-hell faces, comes after him with Uzis, rocket-launchers, and so on.

  • And his commitment to the morality of the conflict will win him several saintly points."


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