HOLY in a Sentence

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135 example sentences for HOLY, such as:

1. To wish you joy at this holy season.
2. A holy person is required to read the Holy Bible.
3. We were immediately struck by this city's holiness.
4. To the children, their father's study was the holy of holies.
5. Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
holy
 a.  belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power
 n.  a sacred place of pilgrimage
Classic Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  Ellen O'Hara was different, and Scarlett regarded her as something holy and apart from all the rest of humankind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  The war didn't seem to be a holy affair, but a nuisance that killed men senselessly and cost money and made luxuries hard to get.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Quickly she snatched the curtain lengths from Scarlett, holding them against her monumental, sagging breasts as if they were holy relics.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  In Gopher Prairie it is not good form to be holy except at a church, between ten-thirty and twelve on Sunday.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  The holy leer with which the priest said it remained in her mind.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  He leaves all his deliverance to God, contenting himself with this, that spite of all his pains and pangs, he will still look towards His holy temple.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
7  "God bless ye, and have ye in His holy keeping, men," murmured old Bildad, almost incoherently.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
8  Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
9  At intervals, it arched forth its vast archangel wings, as if to embrace some holy ark.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
10  I had thought, now, that at your temperate North the generations were cold and holy as the hills.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
11  They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IV
12  Winding its way among countless islands, and imbedded in mountains, the "holy lake" extended a dozen leagues still further to the south.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
13  I understand not your allusions about lines and angles; and I leave expounding to those who have been called and set apart for that holy office.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
14  The holy Bible is not more true, and that is the truest thing in nature.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
15  To the north stretched the limpid, and, as it appeared from that dizzy height, the narrow sheet of the "holy lake," indented with numberless bays, embellished by fantastic headlands, and dotted with countless islands.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
Example Sentence:
1  Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it.
2  There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as religion, by per-suading others we convince.
3  To wish you joy at this holy season.
4  Snow clothes, with snow and tender heart, more holy than the clouds, more hot than fire, in the cold wind to fly, burning in the dark.
5  A holy person is required to read the Holy Bible.
6  To the children, their father's study was the holy of holies.
7  The members of the mysterious Far Eastern cult sought to kill the British explorer because they saw him profane the sanctity of their holy goblet by using it as an ashtray. .
8  Shattering the altar and trampling the holy objects underfoot, the invaders desecrate the sanctuary.
9  Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient.
10  The first man is a holy fool who loves animals, the second a razor-thin opportunist, and the third an obese pervert.
11  He has hosted Shia clerics from Iraq, plans to send planes full of Shia pilgrims to the country's holy cities, and dangle billions in investment to revive industry in the south.
12  They fear the blue, which, in mythology, is the color of purity and holiness.
13  We were immediately struck by this city's holiness.