How to Use the Holy Grail in a Sentence

the Holy Grail

noun

• Searching for this, however, is like searching for the Holy Grail.
  — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The musical comedy is adapted from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
• As luck would have it, the Holy Grail of football holidays is coming up in just a few week: Super Bowl 2024.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2024
• Connery is awesome and a natural fit in this movie, which, naturally, is about the search for the Holy Grail.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 29 June 2023
• It’s long been the Holy Grail for Silicon Valley tech titans itching for more wealth and power.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• The show opens with a set piece in Paris, helpfully captioned 1307, in which some soldiers interrogate a group of women over the whereabouts of the Holy Grail.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• The team also covers some brief tips for dealing with aphids in greenhouses and gardens, as well as touching on the Holy Grail of gardening: tomatoes.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
• Two gene therapies were approved for sickle cell disease last week, but for many researchers the Holy Grail remains something far more modest: A pill.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
• Oh, and there’s also a quest for the Holy Grail, possible Nazis with butterfly nets, nefarious magicians and a teary make-out session with Jesus — and that’s just in the first two episodes.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
• Set on a stark hillside among a group of men in white button-ups and black pants, this was a take on the opera’s protectors of the Holy Grail as a contemporary cult over which planets loomed and orbited in projections.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• Many of the gags are either derivative or homages, depending on your perspective, including the vicious killer bunnies that bring to mind Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
• The sight gag recalls a famous recurring joke in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in which the knights ride fake horses while their squires hit coconuts together behind them to imitate horses’ feet.
  — Time, 21 July 2023
• There’s no more appropriate reason to put Monty Python and the Holy Grail back in theaters than the celebration of a comically off-year anniversary.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
• The opera that has furnished processional music for untold millions of weddings is an essay on the impossibility of marital trust—at least, when one member of the couple is a Knight of the Holy Grail.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Figuring out what makes people tick and whether and how to engage on those subjects could be considered the Holy Grail for communications professionals.
  — David Hessekiel, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Fans can peruse participating theaters, and purchase tickets, via the Holy Grail re-release website.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
• In cementing its dominance in streaming over the past decade, Netflix produced hit shows, signed up almost 240 million subscribers, and minted new franchises—the Holy Grail of Hollywood success.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
• But the belly of each comprises an ambrosial, parallel dimension, limitless in divine and earthly delights, and accessible only to true believers, as the Holy Grail was to Lancelot.
  — Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
• Impact, the Holy Grail, comes down to measuring how the packaging chain has changed for the better—shifted away from producing virgin plastic (or plastic at all), for example, or improved at turning plastic into a circular resource.
  — Bypeter Vanham, Fortune, 6 July 2023
• While this is significant in proving that using nuclear fusion as an energy source is possible, there is yet another hurdle to obtaining the Holy Grail – solving the economy of scale involved in making fusion power plants a commercial reality.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Nuclear fusion has long been considered the Holy Grail of clean energy generation—the necessary resources are virtually unlimited, and produces vastly larger amounts of energy compared to other green alternatives.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Aug 2024