How to Use sacrosanct in a Sentence

sacrosanct

adjective
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  • The tradition is regarded as sacrosanct.
  • There are a few things in the case that are sacrosanct.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 3 June 2021
  • The freedom to speak your mind is sacrosanct in our town.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2024
  • People want to make sure that the Bill of Rights is held sacrosanct.
    — Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The name of Raf Simons will remain sacrosanct, in the same way.
    — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2022
  • This is supposed to be a very sacrosanct function of the press.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
  • But the open bidding process for the draft has proven that nothing is sacrosanct.
    — Jenny Vrentas, The MMQB, 5 June 2017
  • Because it has been revealed that the look of your favorite team is far from sacrosanct.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 15 May 2017
  • But that status isn’t sacrosanct or out-of-bounds for debate.
    — Paul A. Gigot, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2020
  • These are the foundations of Texas barbecue, as sacrosanct as Big Tex at the state fair.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The owner had made his money in the food industry, thus this space was sacrosanct.
    — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 9 July 2024
  • For good or ill, anything linked to the military is seen in some corners of D.C.’s elite class as sacrosanct.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 6 July 2023
  • The right to life being the source of all rights, the property necessary to sustain life was sacrosanct.
    — Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
  • Some threatened to vote against their party’s sacrosanct tax bill.
    — Marcy Gordon, The Seattle Times, 9 Dec. 2017
  • This story became concrete and sacrosanct in the aftermath of the Six-Day War.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
  • For the Jews who were the first members of the Jesus movement, nothing was more sacrosanct than the Sabbath, the seventh day of rest and worship.
    — George Weigel, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Freedom of the press is a sacrosanct right of Western democracies.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Spoehr said passage of the NDAA has been sacrosanct and bipartisan for decades.
    — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Voting in the United States of America is a sacrosanct right.
    — Time, 30 Dec. 2020
  • And there is nothing sacrosanct about the age of 18 for buying certain guns (or voting for that matter).
    — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The integrity of the socialist idea is sacrosanct to the true believer.
    — Algis Valiunas, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The number 12 will always be sacrosanct in Foxborough and may never be worn on a jersey there again.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • In Taylor Swift's music, few things if any are as sacrosanct as childhood.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2017
  • Its sacrosanct status is backed by harsh defamation laws.
    — Jintamas Saksornchai, ajc, 28 June 2023
  • For them, the idea of determinism – that one thing leads to another – is sacrosanct.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Some view that limit as sacrosanct, but the Midway hardly has the feel of a coastal community.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019
  • That doesn’t mean that the pendulum should swing and businesses should not return their teams to the office, but maybe five days a week isn’t sacrosanct.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
  • This time should be viewed as sacrosanct, not to be interrupted except in the case of a true emergency.
    — Robin Elledge, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But Hawtin’s latest project challenges something many might have assumed even more sacrosanct, the DJ booth.
    — Joshua Glazer, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Oscar nights were sacrosanct for me as a yeshiva boy growing up on Long Island.
    — Howard Rosenman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018

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