(superl.) Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood.
(superl.) Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next day on his blog he called the job "the Holy Grail of animation gigs".
(2) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
(3) Most of these troops are being sent to Helmand and neighbouring Kandahar where a big push against the Taliban is expected in September, after the holy month of Ramadan.
(4) There's apparently a 30-seat cinema in Paris that's played The Holy Grail for three decades.
(5) Islamist militants have attacked Iraq's largest oil refinery in the city of Baiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, as Iran raised the prospect of direct military intervention to protect Shia holy sites.
(6) The Holy Father has now decided that my resignation will take effect today, 25 February 2013, and that he will appoint an apostolic administrator to govern the archdiocese in my place until my successor as archbishop is appointed.
(7) Speaking in 2001 at the launch of Death in Holy Orders , her 11th Dalgliesh novel, James explained that her success was founded on the belief that plot could never make up for poor writing and that authors should always focus on the reader.
(8) The staggering figure – one of the worst bombings in 13 years of war in Iraq – has cast a pall on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and which begins on Wednesday in Iraq .
(9) And not just the Muslim holy sites, he adds; Palestinians are more visible in the west of the city than previously.
(10) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(11) O’Brien’s successor as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Leo Cushley, said: “I am confident that the decision of the Holy Father is fair, equitable and proportionate.
(12) Has Net-a-Porter found the holy grail of 21st-century fashion?
(13) Hitler chose to stage Nazi party rallies in the city due to its connections to the Holy Roman Empire and the Nuremberg laws, which stripped Jews of their German citizenship, were passed here.
(14) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(15) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
(16) In the mid-1990s, when the movement's influence on HTB was at its height, I visited a Chelsea church run by Nicky Lee, one of the men who converted Welby at Cambridge, and when the Holy Spirit started knocking people down, I'd hear the distinct rattle of pearls when the young women fainted to the floor.
(17) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(18) The fear that Israel was planning to alter the status of the holy place Arabs call Al-Haram Al-Sharif and the Jews the Temple Mount set off the violence.
(19) Recipes for " tomato burgers " (bestowing this fruit sandwich with the holy title of "burger" is an affront to cows everywhere), help on undergoing a " friendship divorce ", extortionate travel guides … Goop covers a lot of ground.
(20) The IAEA team is likely to visit an underground enrichment site near the holy city of Qom, 80 miles south of Tehran, which is carved into a mountain as protection from possible airstrikes.
Interjection
Definition:
(n.) The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected.
(n.) A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as O! Alas! Ha ha! Begone! etc. Compare Exclamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) I see the question from a human rights perspective,” interjects Hasan.
(2) The responses appeared to refer directly to Operation Sovereign Borders, but the immigration department secretary, Martin Bowles, later interjected to clarify that they were meant as general responses to operational matters.
(3) This is the man who, when in the first presidential debate Clinton suggested he doesn’t pay federal income taxes, interjected: “That makes me smart.” Trump claims he cannot release his taxes while he is under audit.
(4) I begin a question about British Eurosceptics – "Lots of people where I come from – " but she can see what's coming and interjects warmly, "A beautiful island."
(5) I hadn't taken much notice of them in the years before, other than vowing unspecific homicide, but they were – every stressy interjection was now – specifically designed to fatigue me.
(6) Despite some previously published favorable prognostic assessments about this unique variant of cervical rhabdomyosarcoma, our limited experience would interject a note of caution, especially in the presence of a focal alveolar pattern and invasion of lymphatics in the cervix.
(7) Embattled FBI director James Comey has refused to clarify whether his organization is investigating Donald Trump’s ties to Russia in a closed briefing on Friday for members of Congress, angering legislators who recall his high-profile interjections about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign , the Guardian has learned.
(8) It doesn't come off, despite Cavani and Ramirez's best efforts, though Colombia took their time to interject and clear that.
(9) He couldn’t resist interjecting: “That’s called business, by the way.” The Republican’s best moment came over trade, his strongest suit in the election campaign.
(10) Children whose single words were frequently interjections produced sentences which expressed desire for an object.
(11) Lord Justice Leveson at times had to interject to warn McMullan that he risked incriminating himself while he was rattling off claims about alleged criminal wrongdoing during his time at News International's Sunday tabloid, which was closed at the height of the public outcry over phone hacking in July.
(12) she interjects, stretching out her fingertips and doing a Liza Minnelli-esque approximation of jazz hands.
(13) Hunt mentioned the scandal at Mid Staffordshire hospital several times and Burnham placed a strong focus on the cost of agency staff: Guardian Healthcare (@GdnHealthcare) Burnham: "Trusts are in the grip of private staffing agencies" #healthdebate April 21, 2015 There were calmer interjections from the Lib Dem’s Lamb who focused on mental health provision throughout and Ukip’s representative Reid.
(14) Terrible show.” “Lots of people agree that the Emmys were a joke – got bad ratings – no credibility!”) When Hillary Clinton mocked him for caring about Emmy-rigging more then election-rigging during the presidential debates, Trump couldn’t resist interjecting “shoulda gotten it”.
(15) Sir Martin Sorrell, the WPP chief executive, who interviewed Murdoch in Cannes, then interjected to ask if his comments meant that "Sky is just the beginning", referring to News Corp's proposed plan to buy the 60.9% of BSkyB that it does not already own.
(16) We saw the revolution on the television and we learned that if you want to change something in your life, this is what you do,” interjected one small boy.
(17) Taxpayers can think of a few other choice Anglo-Saxon terms to sum up this affair , interjects Adrian Bailey ( please make your suggestions in the comments below ).
(18) Here I am saying why (standing orders) should be suspended so that we have the proper debate and we have a vote in your Speakership and whether you have the confidence of the house – and you interject from the chair in order to slap that down.
(19) Johnson, who sat in silence at the table as his aides debated, interjected: "Well, what the hell's the presidency for."
(20) There are cleaners that work harder than I ever have, or you ever have, and they don’t have much money.” Turnbull provoked interjections from Labor MPs when he implied the opposition leader, Bill Shorten , had questions to answer about the deals he presided over when he headed the Australian Workers’ Union.