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holy - use in sentences
Preposition: than
- thou: No, there must not be a " holier than thou " attitude.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: Jesus suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his blood.
Used with adjective complement
- keep: Above all may we have grace given us to reverence and keep holy the Sabbath day amid so much awful and general desecration.
- become: But, when we love, we become just like Christ, we become holy.
- consider: We got to make fancy bread out of salt dough; I made a snake with nuts on top as they were considered holy.
- make: We will be in that hour made holy, made holy.
Modifies a noun
- grail: Red Giant gave us the holy grail of editing - turning video into film.
- scripture: Not from holy scripture, that's for sure.
- shrine: And they also place King Arthur further afield - in none other than the holy shrine of Glastonbury.
- relic: Once a year all these holy relics are carried in procession through the streets of Milan.
- angel: You say ‑ Well then why have the holy angels been ignored?
- communion: Anyone who has made first holy communion is eligible to serve.
Modifying Another Word
- infinitely: The same offense may be a serious thing to you, it is a far more serious thing to an infinitely holy God.
- perfectly: In seeing our Savior, the pure in heart will be made perfectly happy by being made perfectly holy.
- absolutely: In all other religions salvation is sought by self-effort, because God is not conceived of as absolutely holy.
- so: He was so holy that he prayed nearly all day long.
- very: NARRATOR Once upon a time there was a very, very holy man called Simon Stylites.
- even: I discovered a whole tradition of esteem for leisure as something good, dynamic and wholesome - even holy.
Preposition: than
- blood: Philo explains that the offerings of frankincense laid on the golden altar in the Inner Temple were more holy than the blood offered outside.
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