Example sentences for: sanctum

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

  • 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.

  • One hundred and eight columns originally surrounded an inner sanctum that protected a gold-and-ivory statue of Zeus.

  • The path leads on directly in front of the Temple of Athena Nike to the Propylaia (sacred entranceway), which led on into the inner sanctum.

  • Of the Edo-era buildings that have survived or been restored, the most important are the main hall of Kan’eiji and the Toshogu Shrine to the first Tokugawa Shogun Ieyasu — a lesser version of the great sanctum at Nikko, in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture (see page 64).

  • For what were Freud's followers, in the sanctum sanctorum of sternly silent analysts who conduct long-term analyses with patients lying on couches, in this impossible time for the famously impossible profession, up to?


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