How to Use inner sanctum in a Sentence
inner sanctum
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That seems the inner core of those with access to the inner sanctum.
—Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
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The inner sanctum of the clubhouse, the guys, the coaching staff, everything about it.
—Stephen Hawkins, ajc, 30 Sep. 2021
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For the last few months, there has been a steady drip of coronavirus contagion at the edges of Trump World, but none of them have breached the inner sanctum.
—Megan Molteni, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
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Next door is the inner sanctum, the Founders’ Room, which is for exclusive use of ZZ’s founding members.
—Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2023
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That must’ve been a fun day over at the DGA Illuminati’s inner sanctum.
—Anonymous, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
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Peering into a small, heavy, swung-open porthole revealed the inner sanctum, the xenon tank.
—Ryan Bradley, Popular Science, 27 Oct. 2020
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She’s always liked me, so I’ve always been allowed to enter the inner sanctum.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2022
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Some members of the British hierarchy wished to keep cameras out of the inner sanctum of Westminster Abbey, where the queen was crowned.
—Alan Cowell, New York Times, 2 May 2023
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Kelly has created this and allowed the inner sanctum to be shared.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
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It’s all comes with question marks because no one outside the inner sanctum knows for certain.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
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Emmett’s inner sanctum acts as a symbol for his asceticism and his refusal to engage with the world.
—Jerrine Tan, Wired, 16 June 2021
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This got us behind the wall but didn’t grant us access to the kingdom’s inner sanctum, which is protected by another gate.
—Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 22 Aug. 2021
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At anchor, the SX112 looks even more dramatic, with its rear side panels folded down and the open salon windows linking the inner sanctum to the outer deck.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 21 May 2021
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For people in the inner sanctum 4,000 years ago, the placement of stones would have amplified and enhanced human voices and music in a way that must have been spellbinding.
—Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2021
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The 5,000-year-old monument was constructed in such a way that sunlight only enters the inner sanctum on mornings around the winter solstice.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
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Boards serve as the inner sanctum of these organizations, where the most important decisions are made.
—Paroon Chadha, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
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And elsewhere in the Democratic inner sanctum, disdain for Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucus has been rising for years.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
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The elegant wrought iron gates in front and the hidden garden and gazebo in the back, give it the feeling of being an inner sanctum of what’s already a fairly exclusive territory.
—Ann Abel, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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Unlike a visit to Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle, this is the queen’s private residence and a front row seat within her inner sanctum.
—Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Nov. 2020
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An intruder who invaded Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s inner sanctum and blithely sat at her desk wore a high-voltage stun baton at his side.
—Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2021
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Only his brother and six staffers tested positive within the NBA Finals inner sanctum.
—Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2021
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Lennon observes on the sidelines of the thriving Columbus indie music scene, yearning for a personal connection that might shepherd her into the inner sanctum.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
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Rizzo takes me into the laboratory’s inner sanctum, where the head tessitrici (weavers), clad in white lab coats, work the foundation’s traditional four-shaft looms.
—Sebastian Cabrices, Vogue, 14 Nov. 2023
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Based on a best-selling manga by Aiko Koyama, the nine-episode series is set in the traditional Geiko district of Kyoto, depicting the inner sanctum of aspiring maiko courtesans.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2023
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These elite party members will also decide who gets to sit in the inner sanctum of party power, the Politburo Standing Committee -- top decision-making body in China.
—Karson Yiu, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2022
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The show became an obsession for many, inviting audiences into an inner sanctum of lavish settings and private planes at their beck and call — and where viperous family dynamics reigned supreme.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2023
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Rabbis fashioned substitutes for holy requirements that could no longer be performed: prayers instead of animal sacrifices; arks for Torah scrolls instead of the Temple’s inner sanctum.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
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Early accounts describe a city laid out on the classic Chinese grid plan, where ministries, academies, and over a hundred temples surrounded an inner sanctum of imperial palaces.
—Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
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Yet his greatest offense, in Spears’s portrayal, was misrepresenting the inner sanctum of their relationship in his music.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
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This reported treatise on the inner sanctum of the New York psychoanalytic community in the 1970s, told through interviews with an anonymous practitioner, is a classic.
—Ana Cecilia Alvarez, The Atlantic, 1 May 2022
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