How to Use sacred in a Sentence

sacred

adjective

• We have a sacred duty to find out the truth.
• The burial site is sacred ground.
• Freedom is a sacred right.
• They'll make jokes about anything. Nothing is sacred to those guys.
• I can't believe they would do that. Is nothing sacred?
• Please, for the love of all that is sacred and joyful, Step.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2024
• That project is very sacred to the two of us, and the others involved.
  — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• The birthing scene proved to a sacred moment for the actors on set.
  — Natalie Sitek, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024
• The late monarch has been late to rest on Mount Taupiri; a hill that is sacred to the Māori people.
  — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
• LaBeouf isn’t the only actor to step into the realm of the sacred for a role.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022
• Dead Mountains Wilderness, on the grounds that the area is sacred.
  — Dan Michalski, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2022
• The All England Club is a sacred space for tennis fans.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• The document is the closest thing the agency has to a sacred text.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
• Must passion this intense yield to the divine, lend its force to the sacred?
  — Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
• The role of a coach is to hold a sacred space for leaders to reflect and be truly seen and deeply heard.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
• This does not mean that Maimonides does not care about sacred texts – far from it.
  — Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
• Under the seat was a sacred slab known as the Stone of Scone, on which ancient Scottish kings were crowned.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 May 2023
• That's not to say that the entire river, or the entire basin, or the entire Earth is not sacred.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• While Dante was ablaze with light, the Temple Bar, true to its name, was dark and muted, verging on the sacred.
  — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2024
• First thought is that Fridays used to be sacred ground for high school football.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
• But, of course, that ends up making the whole thing intimate and sacred.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
• Al-Aqsa mosque sits on a hilltop sacred to both Jews and Muslims.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
• By night, Yadav led a huge crowd in chants hailing the land as a sacred goddess.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• Their restaurant in the sacred valley of Cuzco, Mil, was closed down for two years.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 23 Sep. 2022
• In France and in our culture, the depiction of love in fiction is sacred.
  — Gabrielle Pedriani, StyleCaster, 12 Sep. 2024
• There's such a deep, unique, sacred bond between her and Morpheus.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• This soon becomes the Onon, a small river sacred to the Mongolians.
  — Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2022
• There's a feeling that nothing said within the group is sacred.
  — Kathleen Felton, Health, 2 May 2023
• At 32 by 16 feet, the temple had two large rooms with marble altars decorated with sacred stones.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 28 Oct. 2024
• The eight-part series tells the stories of five people whose worlds collide when a bomb is detonated at a peaceful Māori protest against a license to mine a sacred site.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024