How to Use sanctum in a Sentence

sanctum

noun

• Her office was her sanctum.
• In the past few weeks, as schools have sent students home, that sanctum has been breached.
  — Agnes Callard, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2020
• He is not allowed back in the inner sanctum of her heart.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 6 June 2019
• That seems the inner core of those with access to the inner sanctum.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• World leaders have the music on their playlists and the stars to their inner sanctums.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2019
• The atmosphere is hushed and solemn: this is the inner sanctum.
  — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
• There is no way to be sure of what the billionaires are telling Putin inside the sanctum of the Kremlin.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2022
• The inner sanctum of the clubhouse, the guys, the coaching staff, everything about it.
  — Stephen Hawkins, ajc, 30 Sep. 2021
• Deep in the folds of the hill, up steep stone stairs flanked with frangipani trees, stood the inner sanctum of the ancient Khmer temple of Vat Phou.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2017
• The five-foot-something Nataraja idol here is awe-inspiring even in the cold darkness of the sanctum.
  — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 18 Dec. 2019
• Udall has tried to revive the Wednesday inner-sanctum lunch.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• Mario comes upon Bowser’s sanctum and sees that he’s turned his castle into the site of an all-night rager.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 30 Mar. 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
• Suddenly the gates swing open to reveal a sanctum of velvet drapes, leather chairs, and a bar lined with bottles of brown whiskey.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Suddenly the gates swing open to reveal a sanctum of velvet drapes, leather chairs, and a bar lined with bottles of brown whiskey.
  — Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2011
• The virus has also breached the world's inner sanctums of power, showing that no one is beyond its reach.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 13 Mar. 2020
• Such is the push-pull dynamic within the Twins’ inner sanctum.
  — Mike Berardino, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2017
• And scroll on to join us on a journey through Milligan’s inner sanctum.
  — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• The Hall of Fame acknowledges—on a plaque in its inner sanctum—that the Doubleday myth is untrue.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• The inner sanctum has long tables with dozens of tech people clacking away.
  — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2018
• Peering into a small, heavy, swung-open porthole revealed the inner sanctum, the xenon tank.
  — Ryan Bradley, Popular Science, 27 Oct. 2020
• As his guests marveled at the space, Trump would press them, asking if Obama had ever shown them the West Wing’s inner sanctum.
  — Philip Rucker, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
• Even in the centuries since, these lands have persisted as a rugged sanctum for outdoorsmen.
  — Zach Montague, New York Times, 22 July 2019
• So what kind of cultural impact can the Trumps have on a city that, barring those in the inner sanctum, is somewhat hostile to them?
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Marie Claire, 16 May 2017
• There is a scrupulousness in his depiction of the queen’s inner sanctum, attention down to the last dessert fork.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 12 Dec. 2019
• Two of my favorites are Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking, one leading us into the inner sanctum of our selfish genes and the other to the very precipice of the event horizon.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2019
• Those in the sanctum of club seats and stadium restaurants even overturned tables to create safer havens.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 18 July 2021
• Kelly has created this and allowed the inner sanctum to be shared.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
• The library itself was an unfathomable sanctum they were barred from, not by rule but by indifference.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• No women has ever made it into the Politburo Standing Committee – the innermost sanctum of power.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024