How to Use sacred in a Sentence

sacred

adjective

• We have a sacred duty to find out the truth.
• The burial site is sacred ground.
• Freedom is a sacred right.
• They'll make jokes about anything. Nothing is sacred to those guys.
• I can't believe they would do that. Is nothing sacred?
• The All England Club is a sacred space for tennis fans.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• This does not mean that Maimonides does not care about sacred texts – far from it.
  — Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
• Under the seat was a sacred slab known as the Stone of Scone, on which ancient Scottish kings were crowned.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 May 2023
• That's not to say that the entire river, or the entire basin, or the entire Earth is not sacred.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• First thought is that Fridays used to be sacred ground for high school football.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
• Al-Aqsa mosque sits on a hilltop sacred to both Jews and Muslims.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
• There's a feeling that nothing said within the group is sacred.
  — Kathleen Felton, Health, 2 May 2023
• My husband had no fondness for smut, for assaults on the sacred.
  — Marie Ndiaye, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The 800-page tome has become something of a sacred text for people in the AI industry.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• Four is the sacred number of the Zia, representing the four points of the compass, the four seasons of the year, the four periods of each day and the four stages of life.
  — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
• The Osage have asked many times for public use of this sacred location to stop.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2023
• Arthur Janis is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, for whom hair is sacred from the moment of birth.
  — Joe Kottke, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• Here are the details of sacred and secular objects at the center of the royal event.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• This sacred moment in the coronation will not be seen by the millions of spectators around the world.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 6 May 2023
• The quote from one of Hinduism's most sacred scriptures is repeated throughout the film.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• The anointing is the most sacred and solemn moment in the entire ceremony, and is meant to be private.
  — Town & Country, 7 May 2023
• In many Eastern cultures the lotus holds great symbolic weight and is considered one of the most sacred plants in the world.
  — Katie Robinson, Town & Country, 14 June 2023
• These special mental states are described in the sacred texts of an ancient school of Buddhism.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2024
• The sacred stories were once painted on their bodies and in the sand, but later migrated to boards and canvas.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• The massive bison have been sacred to the Indigenous for centuries.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• Especially in the sacred space that is the movie theater, where, as we’ve been told so often, heartbreak can, in fact, feel good.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
• The beverage was initially brewed in Shinto shrines, and has held a sacred place in the country’s culture.
  — Tokyo Halfie, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2023
• These natural sinkholes, known as cenotes, are sacred spots in the Mayan world, believed to be entrances to the underworld.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 18 Feb. 2024
• For many pagan cultures, the days before and after the winter solstice were sacred.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• And all of those innocent lives are sacred to us, are equal in value to lives anywhere that are innocent.
  — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024