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Example sentences for "holy"

Lexicographically close words:
holsome; holster; holstered; holsters; holts; holyday; holydays; holye; holystone; holystoned
  1. There dwell Vidar and Vale In the gods' holy seats, When the fire of Surt is slaked.

  2. The waters of his spring were, moreover, considered to be so holy that all who drank of them were held to be sacred, and even the cattle who had tasted of them might not be slain.

  3. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ; this may do something.

  4. Safe enough there from her to whom thou art bound By Holy Church.

  5. He humbly kissed the earth at every moment; And when I left the church, he ran before me To give me holy water at the door.

  6. This will do to a Miracle; he looks like a Bishop going to the Holy War.

  7. Behold, while she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speaks, And blesses her with his two happy hands.

  8. At Salisbury on that day the boy-bishop and his boy-prebendaries went in procession to the altar of the Holy Trinity, taking precedence of the dean and resident canons.

  9. The see was now left vacant for five years, when Hubert Walter, was consecrated, in 1189; he shortly after went to the Holy Land to join Richard I.

  10. On the eve of the Holy Innocents he performed the entire office, excepting the mass, as a real bishop would have done.

  11. In the one eight panels represent four holy women of the Old Testament, and the four Maries.

  12. They pattered down the dark steps (now protected with felt roofing) and ran across six feet of exposed yard into what had once been Mrs Nixon's holy kitchen.

  13. She brought in God, Christ, and even the Holy Spirit.

  14. But they could not see the mysterious and holy flame of the desire for self-perfection blazing within that tousled head.

  15. The Holy Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday in the month, at the 10 A.

  16. At the usual Sunday Services, and on Saint and Holy Days, at 10 A.

  17. This is from "Navajo Holy Song," as rendered by Edith Hart Mason.

  18. Black Elk was a holy man of the Ogalala Sioux.

  19. The history of art in the Southwest, if it is ever rightly written, will not bother with the Italian "Holy Families" imported by agent-guided millionaires trying to buy exclusiveness.

  20. O mountains, pure and holy, give me a song, a strong and holy song to bless my flock and bring the rain!

  21. He established a covenant with the Abrahamitic race, and revealed to it His holy law, by this means to illuminate and bless all mankind.

  22. Therefore, while holy writ inculcates the love of God, it at the same time indicates to us the means whereby this sublime love will be promoted; and the means is to walk in the ways of the Eternal.

  23. Many of the observances prescribed by Holy Writ teach the modes and means of carrying out such duties.

  24. The nobility of his sentiments led him to labour and exert himself in the diffusion of these holy notions wherever he found himself; and he was most sedulous in drawing the attention of men to that which most concerned their spiritual life.

  25. Some would now and then give a hearty laugh, which is an indication of superior grace, and is called "the holy laugh.

  26. It was the same furious fanaticism and one-idea'd intolerance which made Caliph Omar destroy all he could find of the Alexandrian Library and prescribe burning for the Holy Books of the Persian Guebres.

  27. The King and his Wazir set forth in magnificent array, and after a rapid march, they arrived before the holy city Medina, which may God keep in high renown!

  28. FN#282] We cannot wonder that her name is still famous among the Badawin and the "Sons of the Holy Cities.

  29. The holy man bowed the chin of doubt upon the collar of meditation; and, too honest to lie, presently whispered, "Allah defend me from such temptation of Satan!

  30. Prideaux disingenuously suggests that it "seems to have been purposely raised up by God, to be a scourge to the Christian Church for not living in accordance with their most holy religion.

  31. The change in English manners brought about by the cigar after dinner has already been noticed; and much of the modified sobriety of the present day may be attributed to the influence of the Holy Herb en cigarette.

  32. It suggests the story of the Irishman who brought over to the holy Catholic Church three several Protestant wives, but failed with the fourth on account of the decline of his "Convarter.

  33. Lyons, 1261: it treated of the gifts of the Holy Spirit (Isaiah xi.

  34. Holy Ointment applied to the beard of Luka the Knight-- "unxerunt regem Salomonem" (vol.

  35. It is utterly impossible for such to be holy in this condition.

  36. The cleansing blood and the Holy Spirit will never be applied to the heart that is not absolutely consecrated.

  37. It is a source of great satisfaction to know that wherever the Holy Spirit has the right of way in the hearts of men, there is found true apostolic unity, both in spirit and in doctrine.

  38. The heart can be purified and become a holy temple for the indwelling of the Holy Ghost.

  39. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.

  40. The Holy Spirit will make it plain what this death implies, and at last the dying soul goes through its last struggle and yields up its last treasure.

  41. And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

  42. For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit.

  43. Then and then only can the Holy Ghost come into and possess the temple.

  44. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

  45. The sanctified body is not sinful but holy (1 Cor.

  46. Spiritualistic at heart and nurtured upon Holy Scripture in his pious childhood, he felt a sincere repugnance for the elegant or cynical materialism which was every day more and more creeping over the eighteenth century.

  47. The restorer of French Protestantism had made no mistake about the call then required for the holy ministry.

  48. At the bottom of his soul, and in the innermost sanctuary of his conscience, Bossuet felt his weakness; he saw the apostolic severance from the world, the apostolic zeal and fervor required for the holy crusade he had undertaken.

  49. Thither it was that boats, putting off from Marseilles, went to fetch the alms of the pope, more charitable than many priests, accompanying his gifts with all the spiritual consolations and indulgences of his holy office.

  50. Whereupon I pray God, cousin, to have you in His holy and worthy keeping.

  51. Holy Scripture, before Montesquieu, had affirmed more simply and more powerfully the unchangeable idea of justice in every soul of man.

  52. There hung Peter in his uneasy posture--holy Bartlemy in the troublesome act of flaying, after the famous Marsyas by Spagnoletti.

  53. The whole banquet is too civic and culinary, and the accompaniments altogether a profanation of that deep, abstracted, holy scene.

  54. While childhood, and while dreams, reducing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

  55. This fancy of dungeons for children was a sprout of Howard's brain; for which (saving the reverence due to Holy Paul) methinks, I could willingly spit upon his statue.

  56. Every day is his Candlemas, or his Feast of Holy Michael.

  57. Some of these same pagan writers believed that the object of worship in the Holy of Holies was the head of an ass, and other absurdities of the same nature.

  58. It puts a Gentile King and Queen in the place of the nation's own Messiah, under whose sceptre alone it is to enjoy peace, blessedness and holy greatness.

  59. No, "they shall call them the Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord.

  60. He would have absorbed us, made us vassals of the Holy See, and would no longer have had to fear our services.

  61. In 1832 the Sanfedists (Holy Faithites) openly paraded their medals, bearing the heads of the Duke of Modena and the Pope; letters issued by the apostolic confederation; privileges and indulgences.

  62. Oh, may the wine from vines it warms, May holy love thence fluttering down, Lend my philosophy their charms, To drive away care's direful frown!

  63. Instead of confiding to a general the direction of our Order, the best militia of the Holy See, I should command it myself.

  64. Above the bed were three pictures; and near the pillow a crucifix, with a holy water basin and a prayer, printed in letters of gold and framed.

  65. But our holy father the Pope has blessed it; it was put upon my finger in childhood by a beautiful lady who took care of me, and who told me never to part with it.

  66. Diard was one of the men who are instinctively compelled to start again the moment they arrive, and whose vital object seems to be to come and go incessantly, like the wheels mentioned in Holy Writ.

  67. Just tell me you are willing & many thousands of the holy little missals will go forth.

  68. Swore off from profanity early this morning--I was on deck in the peaceful dawn, the calm of holy dawn.

  69. The holy Hindoo pilgrim's "itinerary of salvation" is one of the richest of all Mark Twain's fancies, and is about the best thing in the book.

  70. Wilberforce impressively answered: "It is the Holy Grail.

  71. Letter to New York Herald on the return from the Holy Land.

  72. Special Correspondent on the pleasure excursion now about to proceed from this City to the Holy Land.

  73. Almost the first man he met was the chief of the New York Alta bureau with a check for twelve hundred and fifty dollars (the amount of his ticket) and a telegram saying, "Ship Mark Twain in the Holy Land Excursion and pay his passage.

  74. To build a fitting monument to mark that holy place; Put me down for a hundred; now, boys, how much for you?

  75. Gud now understood for the first time in his life that he was Gud and at the same time he was a holy ghost, and that he was also his own father.

  76. The holy friars have at least taught us that, albeit the monks may not have done so.

  77. And think of thy skill with brush and pen, and thy knowledge of Latin and the Holy Scriptures; thy sweet voice, and thy skill upon the lute.

  78. These form the magic circle of the arts, of which thou mayest become a master without taking any vow to Holy Church.

  79. If I could keep my mind fixed on holy things, and continue to pray, I was safe from them.

  80. The soldiers regarded their cause as a holy crusade against tyranny and slavery, and in token of this feeling they fastened upon their arms a white cross, as an outward mark of their faith.

  81. The Barons' arguments were also culled from Holy Writ, and proved how deeply the teachings of the Franciscans were working in the hearts of the people.

  82. He sends his ring by a faithful messenger and a holy father confessor, who will bring her to him.

  83. Yes, if thou wilt marry me, so soon as we can find some holy man to join our hands in wedlock!

  84. In both the lower creation and the higher, this same groaning of the fettered idea after a freer life, seems the first enforced decree of a holy fate, and itself the first movement of the hampered thing toward the liberty of another birth.

  85. The one true end of all speech concerning holy things is--the persuading of the individual man to cease to do evil, to set himself to do well, to look to the lord of his life to be on his side in the new struggle.

  86. Those who had repented to the sending away of their sins, he would baptize with a holy power to send them away indeed.

  87. Even in the unlovely facts also of the world which he turns to holy use, such as the unjust judge, the false steward, the faithless labourers, he ignores the temple.

  88. He saw they knew him too well, were too wide-awake to be cozened by him, and to avoid their expected challenge, fell to reviling the holy nation.

  89. Less than the liberty of a holy heart, less than the freedom of the Lord himself, will never satisfy one human soul.

  90. When all are gone, the holy punishment will have departed also.

  91. Thus after Man had fallen (if aught 55 These perishable spheres have wrought May with that issue be compared) Throngs of celestial visages, Darkening like water in the breeze, A holy sadness shared.

  92. Clouds do not name those Visitants; they were 10 The very Angels whose authentic lays, Sung from that heavenly ground in middle air, Made known the spot where piety should raise A holy Structure to the Almighty's praise.

  93. Pure transport undisturbed by doubt or fear The gazers feel; and, rushing to the plain, Salute those strangers as a holy train Or blest procession (to the Immortals dear) That brought their precious liberty again.

  94. A holy Shadow soft and dear Of chastening sympathies!

  95. Salute those strangers as a holy train Or blest procession (to the Immortals dear) That brought their precious liberty again.

  96. With holy reverence I approach the rocks Whence glide the streams renowned in ancient song.

  97. Repairs are going on in the Chapel, which was struck by lightning a few years ago, and all but the altar and its holy things, with the image of the patron saint, destroyed.

  98. But Glastonbury is not only an Arthurian shrine; it was once, in purer days than ours, the keeper of the Holy Grail.

  99. They held our eyes for a little and, when we looked forward again, there by the river rose the spire of Holy Trinity, keeping its faithful watch and ward.

  100. Even in these far distant days his tradition is revered, and on Holy Thursday the choristers of the cathedral yet go in procession to St. Chad's Well, bearing green boughs and chanting.

  101. For outside this, the holy wall, was another, shutting in over threescore acres of fertile land which the lay brothers, far exceeding the clerical monks in number, kept well tilled.

  102. Now, in the first shock of reaction, he saw himself a stranger, an intruder, a trespasser on holy ground.

  103. See, this is your patron saint, the holy Wallburga.

  104. And, as once before, she threw herself on her bed, angrily chafing against the holy images.

  105. A few pretty cups and mugs were not wanting amid these holy surroundings, and two small crystal salt cellars to the right and left of the nativity set off on either hand the central piece.

  106. She threw herself on the bed and lay motionless, staring at the picture of the Holy Mother and at the crucifix which hung on the wall opposite.

  107. Which would you rather be, a rough stick with which men may perhaps fight and kill each other, and which when it is rotten is broken up and burnt, or a finely carved holy image like that one yonder that is set in a frame and devoutly honoured?

  108. And this is how the holy Wallburga looked!

  109. Rude hands have made a rough block out of you, but God's hand can carve you into a holy image if you will do just as He bids you.

  110. She drew the cards from her pocket, laid them before her, and folded her hands over them as over some holy relic.

  111. I refused him absolution, and sent him to join the Papal army; there he may earn God's forgiveness by good service to the Holy Father, or expiate his crimes by death.

  112. Why, of course--rather a holy image like that.

  113. The dear old holy Roman realm, How does it hold together?

  114. FAUST Is parchment, then, the holy fount before thee, A draught wherefrom thy thirst forever slakes?

  115. Behind me, field and meadow sleeping, I leave in deep, prophetic night, Within whose dread and holy keeping The better soul awakes to light.

  116. FAUST Ah, that simplicity and innocence ne'er know Themselves, their holy value, and their spell!

  117. Thou seest, not vain the threats I bring thee: With holy fire I'll scorch and sting thee!

  118. Thou goest, they stand in rows to see, And all the caps are lifted high; A little more, and they would bend the knee As if the Holy Host came by.

  119. Perchance my love, amid the childish band, Grateful for gifts the Holy Christmas gave her, Here meekly kissed the grandsire's withered hand.

  120. Prepare beforehand for your part With paragraphs all got by heart, So you can better watch, and look That naught is said but what is in the book: Yet in thy writing as unwearied be, As did the Holy Ghost dictate to thee!

  121. Then, too, thou honorest not the Holy Sacraments.


  122. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    angelic; awesome; awful; boundless; changeless; creation; devout; divine; eternal; everlasting; glorious; godlike; godly; good; hallowed; heavenly; highest; holy; immortal; immutable; ineffable; inexpressible; infinite; inviolable; inviolate; just; limitless; loving; luminous; majestic; merciful; mystical; omnipotent; omnipresent; omniscient; one; perfect; permanent; perpetual; pietistic; pious; prayerful; pure; radiant; religious; righteous; sacred; sacrosanct; saintly; seraphic; solemn; sovereign; spiritual; sublime; supreme; timeless; ubiquitous; unbounded; unchanging; undefined; unearthly; unlimited; unspeakable; untouchable; unutterable; unworldly; venerable


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    holy angels; holy calling; holy chirche; holy city; holy convocation; holy father; holy fathers; holy friar; holy ground; holy house; holy mount; holy mountain; holy name; holy nation; holy obedience; holy people; holy place; holy places; holy priesthood; holy souls; holy things; holy unto; holy water; holy well; holy will; holy word