Example sentences for: sanctity

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

  • I walked down the aisle recently and I have to tell you, if there's something greater than the sanctity of marriage, I have yet to find it.

  • The self-immolation of widows, known as sati — a widow becomes sati, a “virtuous woman,” by climbing onto her husband’s funeral pyre — has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her products: milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.

  • Those who cheered for George Bush, instead of calling him murderer, based their judgment on what they took to be a law regarding the sanctity of national borders and on the fact that Iraqi troops had violated such a border by invading a neighboring country.

  • Bob Miller and the "gaming visionaries" have been planning for these hearings for months, hoping to use them to demonstrate the might and sanctity and goodness of the Nevada gambling industry.

  • Most of Hyde's brief statement addresses the sanctity of the judicial oath, a favorite subject of his.


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