How to Use the Holy Land in a Sentence

the Holy Land

noun

• The large, long palm branches were common in the Holy Land, Jobe said.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
• Holy Land The first female pastor was ordained in the Holy Land.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2023
• That year, all through Jerusalem, all through the Holy Land, there was rioting.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• And though of course the Holy Land is now much more developed than ever, in some ways things haven’t changed since the 1930s.
  — Randy Rosenthal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• At the time, the diplomatic breakthrough seemed a landmark moment after years of strife and bloodshed in the Holy Land.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Other Jews may think twice before migrating to the Holy Land.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 May 2024
• East Palestine was christened by nineteenth-century settlers who wished to evoke the Holy Land.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
• But none of that can obscure an undeniable fact: The Jewish connection to the Holy Land is ancient, current and eternal.
  — Avi Shafran, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
• Approximately 11% of the city's population is Christian, the highest in the Holy Land.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 27 June 2024
• His wish to subvert this process was driven by an even higher ambition: to prevent the emergence of a sovereign Palestinian state and the partition of the Holy Land.
  — Ami Ayalon, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2023
• This war that is occurring in the Holy Land, now, can put us back eight generations – eight generations of people hating, killing and enacting vengeance.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 May 2024
• Both churches are following the example set by other churches across the Holy Land and are limiting Christmas festivities this year.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• That the conflict is taking place in what’s known as the Holy Land, a region fraught with overlapping significance for multiple religions, complicates the situation.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2024
• Ndayishimiye's support for Israel is connected to his family and faith's interpretation of biblical teachings about the Holy Land.
  — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 26 May 2024
• But diplomatic efforts on issues of war and peace outside his control have met with little success, clearly frustrating a pontiff who has incessantly called for peace, especially in the Holy Land.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
• Looking to the future, rather than wanting to focus on the festival’s illustrious past, Farrell sees the quintessential revolutionary Lollapalooza as one that would occur in the Holy Land.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 May 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024