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Example sentences for: sanctum

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The impressive outer pylon was erected in the second century b.c. to surround the older inner sanctum.
The Precinct of Demeter lay in a walled complex, and its inner sanctum, the Periklean Telesterion, where only initiates were allowed to enter, sat within the temple.
Though even Monica Lewinsky, for all her wheedling, couldn't convince the president to give her a tour of the White House private quarters, the tabs have no trouble penetrating that sanctum sanctorum, providing bulletins from Bill and Hillary's intimate moments.
The sanctum of the shrine, designated a National Treasure, has a gilded and lacquered altar some 3 m (nearly 10 ft) high, where a seated wooden figure of Iemitsu looks down upon his mighty works.
The inner sanctum of the temple was aligned so that the first rays of the sun on 21 February and 21 October would fall on the sacred barque deposited here and on the statues of four gods (Ptah, Amun, Ramses II, and Ra-Herekhty), though scholars are still not sure what was so propitious about these dates.