How to Use biblical in a Sentence

biblical

adjective

• But not even the celebrities are spared from the biblical rains.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• Each is meant to represent the biblical Ark of the Covenant.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• The title was an allusion to the biblical tale of Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2023
• The site is the holiest site in Judaism, home to the ancient biblical Temples.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, ajc, 3 Jan. 2023
• Looking back at it now, Ellen and Ben wouldn’t change a thing—even the biblical weather.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023
• It is inspired by the biblical anointing of King Solomon.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 6 May 2023
• But unlike in the biblical tale, this time the little guy didn’t prevail.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• In the biblical account of the miracle of the loaves and fishes, Jesus uses two fish and five loaves of bread to feed a large crowd.
  — Ruth Graham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• The ceiling is made of timber and is meant to invoke the biblical and Quranic story of Noah's Ark.
  — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
• She was inspired by the biblical story of Isaac, who came to Sarah and Abraham later in life.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
• The biblical King Solomon is known for his wisdom and discernment granted to him by God.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• Aemond was apparently just trying to take Luke's eye out in the true biblical sense in the scrap.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
• Both were involved in a group that promotes preparedness for the biblical end times.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2023
• Thus the biblical story of Samson, the legendary Israelite warrior who sets out to defeat the Philistines.
  — Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024
• The holy day commemorating the biblical story of the arrival of the three wise men bearing gifts, marks the end of the Christmas season.
  — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
• That’s where the movie’s other big biblical connection comes in.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
• But there are so many ways to find the sort of steadiness that these accounts, biblical or otherwise, seem to offer.
  — Anne Helen Petersen, ELLE, 29 Aug. 2023
• Its core conflict gets quite nasty, almost like a biblical feud.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• There's usually a service for reading the megillah, the biblical Book of Esther written out on a scroll.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
• In these unedited movie adaptations, biblical writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John come to life.
  — Leah Hall, Country Living, 3 Dec. 2022
• The sequence of these terms in both the biblical text and in the Amidah, however, shows us which approach has the most significance.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2023
• One is a listing of all the words in a text—that’s a concordance, a genre first developed as a tool of biblical scholarship.
  — Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2023
• Balthasar was also one of the biblical three kings who visited the infant Jesus, a fitting name given that the new prince arrived near the feast of the Epiphany.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• There are biblical allusions to a devil on the move (seeking the ruin of souls, perhaps, as in the Christian prayer to St. Michael the Archangel) and lessons to the singer’s two sons not to judge others.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
• In the centuries prior to its writing there were only portions or sections of biblical texts in scroll form -- which came to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• In a concurring opinion, the chief justice drew on biblical scripture to decide the case.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2024
• The Judean date palm, prized for its sweet and possibly medicinal fruits, had been a feature of the landscape of biblical Israel.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• Israel considers the West Bank the biblical heartland of the Jewish people.
  — Isabel Debre, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• Many of the people there that day cast the attack on the Capitol to stop the certification of the 2020 election as a biblical battle of good versus evil.
  — Time, 30 Dec. 2022
• Some of them are biblical texts by people such as Saint Jerome or texts by poet Eustache Deschamps.
  — Hazlitt, 18 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024