How to Use the Holy Land in a Sentence

the Holy Land

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  • 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

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