Holy

//ˈhəʊli//

"Holy" in a Sentence (20 examples)

Holy crap, who's the asshole who dares call me in the middle of the night?!

Holy cow!

This is holy ground.

The Holy Roman Empire came to an end in the year 1806.

The holy man tiptoed his way across the Ganges.

The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.

She always carries the Holy Bible about.

As the Holy Koran tells us, "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth."

And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.

Gladly pass the souls of the righteous to the golden seat of Ahura Mazda, to the golden seat of the Amesha-Spentas, to the Garô-nmânem, the abode of Ahura Mazda, the abode of the Amesha-Spentas, the abode of all the other holy beings.

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I'm planning to visit the holy city of Jerusalem this Christmas.

... where he and Basil read together poems and philosophies, and holier things, or talked low and misopogonistcally of their fellow-student Julian’s bearded boding smile were his happiest days.

The growing sense that more and more religious Jews are now worshiping openly at the holy site was given support by a report over the weekend on Israel’s Channel 12, which broadcast footage of Jewish prayer sessions and Torah lessons it said were being held there daily.

“Through the Sacraments, God shares his holiness with us so that we, in turn, can make the world holier,” the conference says on its website.

On Tuesday, a month since they were abducted, families of those kidnapped are expected to protest at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism, as well as at the Knesset, over what they say are inadequate efforts to reach a deal with Hamas to release their loved ones.

This tree is considered holy in my culture.

My grandmother is a very holy woman.

Holy cow, I can’t believe he actually lost the race!

Those children next door are holy terrors!

The holy of holies, a cubical space of ten cubits on the side, was separated from the larger antechamber by four columns, which were also covered with gold and stood upon silver sockets; they bore a second curtain of four colors.

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