How to Use inner sanctum in a Sentence

inner sanctum

noun

• That seems the inner core of those with access to the inner sanctum.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• The inner sanctum of the clubhouse, the guys, the coaching staff, everything about it.
  — Stephen Hawkins, ajc, 30 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• That must’ve been a fun day over at the DGA Illuminati’s inner sanctum.
  — Anonymous, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• Peering into a small, heavy, swung-open porthole revealed the inner sanctum, the xenon tank.
  — Ryan Bradley, Popular Science, 27 Oct. 2020
• She’s always liked me, so I’ve always been allowed to enter the inner sanctum.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Kelly has created this and allowed the inner sanctum to be shared.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Boards serve as the inner sanctum of these organizations, where the most important decisions are made.
  — Paroon Chadha, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Only his brother and six staffers tested positive within the NBA Finals inner sanctum.
  — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024