How to Use sacrosanct in a Sentence
sacrosanct
adjective- The tradition is regarded as sacrosanct.
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There are a few things in the case that are sacrosanct.
— Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 3 June 2021 -
The freedom to speak your mind is sacrosanct in our town.
— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2024 -
People want to make sure that the Bill of Rights is held sacrosanct.
— Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018 -
The name of Raf Simons will remain sacrosanct, in the same way.
— Sarah Mower, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2022 -
This is supposed to be a very sacrosanct function of the press.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019 -
But the open bidding process for the draft has proven that nothing is sacrosanct.
— Jenny Vrentas, The MMQB, 5 June 2017 -
Because it has been revealed that the look of your favorite team is far from sacrosanct.
— Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 15 May 2017 -
But that status isn’t sacrosanct or out-of-bounds for debate.
— Paul A. Gigot, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2020 -
These are the foundations of Texas barbecue, as sacrosanct as Big Tex at the state fair.
— Tim Carman, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023 -
For good or ill, anything linked to the military is seen in some corners of D.C.’s elite class as sacrosanct.
— Philip Elliott, Time, 6 July 2023 -
The right to life being the source of all rights, the property necessary to sustain life was sacrosanct.
— Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024 -
Some threatened to vote against their party’s sacrosanct tax bill.
— Marcy Gordon, The Seattle Times, 9 Dec. 2017 -
This story became concrete and sacrosanct in the aftermath of the Six-Day War.
— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024 -
For the Jews who were the first members of the Jesus movement, nothing was more sacrosanct than the Sabbath, the seventh day of rest and worship.
— George Weigel, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018 -
Freedom of the press is a sacrosanct right of Western democracies.
— Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Mar. 2017 -
Spoehr said passage of the NDAA has been sacrosanct and bipartisan for decades.
— Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 2 Dec. 2020 -
Voting in the United States of America is a sacrosanct right.
— Time, 30 Dec. 2020 -
And there is nothing sacrosanct about the age of 18 for buying certain guns (or voting for that matter).
— Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2018 -
The integrity of the socialist idea is sacrosanct to the true believer.
— Algis Valiunas, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022 -
The number 12 will always be sacrosanct in Foxborough and may never be worn on a jersey there again.
— BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021 -
In Taylor Swift's music, few things if any are as sacrosanct as childhood.
— Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2017 -
Its sacrosanct status is backed by harsh defamation laws.
— Jintamas Saksornchai, ajc, 28 June 2023 -
For them, the idea of determinism – that one thing leads to another – is sacrosanct.
— The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022 -
Some view that limit as sacrosanct, but the Midway hardly has the feel of a coastal community.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019 -
That doesn’t mean that the pendulum should swing and businesses should not return their teams to the office, but maybe five days a week isn’t sacrosanct.
— Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021 -
This time should be viewed as sacrosanct, not to be interrupted except in the case of a true emergency.
— Robin Elledge, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022 -
But Hawtin’s latest project challenges something many might have assumed even more sacrosanct, the DJ booth.
— Joshua Glazer, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2019 -
Oscar nights were sacrosanct for me as a yeshiva boy growing up on Long Island.
— Howard Rosenman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018 -
User data was sacrosanct as far as the Twitter lawyers were concerned.
— Bradley Hope, Wired, 1 Sep. 2020
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