(n.) A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
(n.) A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail.
(n.) Small particles of earth; gravel.
(n.) One of the small feathers of a hawk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next day on his blog he called the job "the Holy Grail of animation gigs".
(2) There's apparently a 30-seat cinema in Paris that's played The Holy Grail for three decades.
(3) Has Net-a-Porter found the holy grail of 21st-century fashion?
(4) Instead, the ARTPOP app has begun to sound like an interactive advertisement, similar to the app for Jay Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail.
(5) In June, Jay-Z struck a deal with Samsung to give away 1m early copies of his Magna Carta Holy Grail album to fans who downloaded an Android app.
(6) In common usage, “myth” is at best the word we use to refer to amusingly preposterous urban legends – tales about albino alligators in the Manhattan sewers or the Holy Grail’s hiding place under the floor of a Paris shopping mall.
(7) At 7.44pm ET Brian Fallon, former press secretary to Hillary Clinton, tweeted breathlessly: “The holy grail.” Ninety-eight minutes and a somewhat anticlimactic Rachel Maddow Show later, Fallon tweeted again: “Dems should return focus to Trumpcare tomorrow & the millions it will leave uninsured, not get distracted by two pages from ’05 tax return.” Trump had to pay millions due to tax law he aims to abolish, leaked return shows Read more It was neither the holy grail, nor the smoking gun, nor the long-awaited release of all Trump’s tax returns with all their potential Russian secrets.
(8) The homeobox gene en, homologous to the gene en-grailed of Drosophila, is expressed in the metencephalic-mesencephalic segment of the vertebrate neural tube.
(9) The Commission E Monograph, a German document regarded as the holy grail of herbalism by orthodox doctors, makes all kinds of pronouncements about the herb's "contraindications" - the circumstances in which it should not be prescribed.
(10) The Speaker, Bronwyn Bishop, said the document, which sets out the rule of law, was “mystical in some way, almost like the search for the Holy Grail”.
(11) Magna Carta Holy Grail received nods in almost every rap category, outpacing LPs by Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
(12) That "pocket of calm" is every Olympian's holy grail.
(13) But Stephen Greenhalgh, Johnson’s deputy mayor for policing, believes devolution would deliver a better service and allow a greater focus on the holy grail of the justice system: reducing repeat offending.
(14) The government has come up with the holy grail – a tax hike that is popular with the electorate (just as it did with the 1997 windfall tax on utilities).
(15) Michael Palin, actor Having done The Holy Grail and Life of Brian , we found ourselves with a much bigger budget for The Meaning of Life.
(16) It was astonishing evidence of Salmond and the SNP having found a route to the Holy Grail of international politics: the support of young people.
(17) The disenchanted working class is the holy grail for vote-catchers, although no one actually seems to like its members.
(18) What Duncan Smith offers appears to be the holy grail of social policy: simplifying the labyrinthine benefits system so that it guarantees welfare payments to a certain level of earnings, and then sees anyone who gets into work lose their entitlements at a fixed rate.
(19) While the crusaders litter the countryside with steaming piles of barbecued heretics, there's some modern Durr Vinci Code whiffle involving hooded business types and clandestine sacrifices conducted in the name of "ze inheritors of ze Grail".
(20) The TPP is an effort to use the holy grail of free trade to impose conditions and override domestic laws in a way that would be almost impossible if the proposed measures had to go through the normal legislative process.