SANCTITY in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for SANCTITY, such as:

1. The great thing is to respect the sanctity of the home.
2. places sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness.
3. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart.
4. She held out her hands as much to that sanctity as to the boy.
5. There are twain gates of War, so runs their name, consecrate in grim Mars' sanctity and terror.

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 Meanings and Examples of SANCTITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sanctity
 n.  the condition of being considered sacred or inviolable
Classic Sentence:
1  She held out her hands as much to that sanctity as to the boy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  To him motoring was a faith not to be questioned, a high-church cult, with electric sparks for candles, and piston-rings possessing the sanctity of altar-vessels.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  She doubted the convenience and, as a natural sequent, the sanctity of the monogamous and separate home which she had regarded as the basis of all decent life.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and sanctity, that I could not suspect him of courting notoriety by any mere tricks of the stage.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
5  She had always been predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to sanctity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
6  Nothing of this triumph reached Fauchelevent in his hut; he went on grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least suspecting his excellences and his sanctity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY
7  places sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
8  I see you to tell you that everything separates us--the depths of the sea, the enmity of kingdoms, the sanctity of vows.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
9  Arthur Dimmesdale, like many other personages of special sanctity, in all ages of the Christian world, was haunted either by Satan himself or Satan's emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chillingworth.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
10  He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
11  The great thing is to respect the sanctity of the home.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 11
12  His house, stately and vast, crowned the city, upreared on an hundred columns, once the palace of Laurentian Picus, amid awful groves of ancestral sanctity.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
13  There are twain gates of War, so runs their name, consecrate in grim Mars' sanctity and terror.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
14  He declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell as ze sanctity of its alliances.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  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. .