How to Use promised land in a Sentence

promised land

noun
  • But the Bears are one win away from a promised land that has remained out of reach.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2021
  • On the other side is the promised land of baby-smooth, ageless skin.
    Rachel Burchfield, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2021
  • The New York Subliners are whole again, and Eubanks wants to lead a young squad to the promised land.
    Sean Collins, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2021
  • There are enough back who have the taste of not getting there, to Omaha, the promised land.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2022
  • Only one sequence of left and right turns will lead them to the promised land across the Channel.
    Arno Pedram, ajc, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The Sunsets made their way back to the promised land by winning the title in four games in the best of five series.
    Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Reaching the promised land While the Dodgers are all about their offense, the Rays are all about their group of pitchers.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Back to the camps, where the player plots the precise blend of kindness and cruelty that will lead them to the promised land.
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • At one end, the 46-game grind can open the door to the promised land of the Premier League, with the nine-figure cash rewards just for showing up.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 16 May 2021
  • Even Moses never reached the promised land; his blessing was having the vision to see it.
    Matt Thompson, The Atlantic, 7 June 2020
  • Coach Bob Bailey is counting on a trio of runners to lead his team back to the promise land.
    Andrew J. Campa, Glendale News-Press, 2 Sep. 2017
  • If the Spurs are to rediscover the promised land of the NBA playoffs, a child (or children) shall lead them there.
    Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 19 Dec. 2020
  • God had chosen her to lead other migrants through the desert and into the promised land: the United States.
    Washington Post, 3 June 2020
  • The Padres banked on a whole lot of Sunshine during their return to baseball’s promised land.
    Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
  • To win a Super Bowl, the defense must play an integral role in getting to the promised land.
    Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Bhushan Powar Design wants to take you to the promised land with its newest megayacht concept.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 May 2022
  • Most of them toil for years before being washed out of the game without ever having reached the promised land of the big leagues.
    Mitchell Nathanson, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2022
  • If we are lost in the promised land, perhaps it’s because the ground has never quite seemed solid beneath our feet.
    Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The song and video pay homage to my grandfather and the working class and the struggle, but this song really is about thinking my promised land was a place.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Johnson then evoked the Book of Exodus, promising that soon Black people would find a Moses to lead them into a promised land.
    Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The sitcom was the promised land anyway for any kind of working comedian.
    Jason Sheeler, PEOPLE.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The treaty promised land in Colorado, but it was never delivered, says Begaye.
    Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • But his mind also drifted, and how couldn’t it with his path to the promised land including more dramatic turns than straight lines.
    Jay Paris, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Mora’s sophomore feature follows five young men growing up on the streets of Medellín who set off on a journey in search of the promised land.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2022
  • However, through bad luck, injuries and facing better teams, he's never reached the promised land of the Finals.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 6 July 2021
  • And some teams are much more realistically one or two moves away from the promised land than others.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 July 2021
  • Like a computer-graphics Moses, Smith helped deliver Pixar within sight of the promised land.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The Israelites were ultimately freed from slavery and wandered the desert for 40 years before making it to the promise land.
    Sarah Gray, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
  • After his sentence ended, Erik the Red sailed back to Iceland to convince other settlers to follow him to this new promised land.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
  • But after an hour or so of slow, steady movement upward, with the promised land of the sunny bowl almost within reach, the snow suddenly becomes gnarly, topped with icy debris.
    Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Dec. 2022

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