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sacred

If something is sacred, it is put aside for use by religion; it is made holy. If something is sacred, it is not common; it is holy. The place where the tribe performed their ceremonies was sacred to them. If something or someone is sacred, they are about religion. If something is sacred, it is given by divine authority. If something is sacred, it is not to be violated. If something is sacred, it is dedicated or devoted to something. A temple, sacred to the queen of love. -.

sacred

concerned with religion or religious purposes sacred texts sacred rites sacred music worthy of respect or dedication saw motherhood as woman's sacred calling (= consecrated, sanctified) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use a consecrated church the sacred mosque sacred elephants sacred bread and wine sanctified wine (often followed by 'to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person a fund sacred to charity a morning hour sacred to study a private office sacred to the President (= hallowed) worthy of religious veneration the sacred name of Jesus Jerusalem's hallowed soil

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Simple sentences

Cows are sacred to Hindus.
In India, the cow is a sacred animal.
The sacred ceremony was held in the magnificent temple.
Nothing's sacred.
Cats were sacred animals in ancient Egypt.
In India, cows are sacred animals.
He is your brother, they say; which interpreted, means that he was manufactured in the same mould, and for that reason he must be sacred in your eyes!
The sacred tree sits in the middle of the sacred grove.
In the Middle Ages, water from the sacred spring was considered a panacea.
Human life is sacred.
The river Ganges is considered sacred to Hindus.
Cows are considered sacred animals in India.
Animals were more sacred than people to the Native Americans.
This shrine is sacred to Jupiter.
Cows are sacred to many people in India.
The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be acted on. Whoever acts on it will ruin it; whoever holds on to it will lose it.
Cows are, for Hindus, sacred animals.
Few townsmen know which sacred day is which.
This land is sacred to my people.

Movie subtitles

Did you know that the clitoris is a holy sacred thing?
Ulysses lands in Sicily, where the sacred bulls of Jupiter are located.
Aching with hunger, despite his warnings, Ulysses' companions feed on the meat of the sacred bulls.
The white elephant of the King of Siam, the sacred animal,..
I will be on the sacred vessel, with the white elephant.
A sacred cloth.
For the peasant, bread is sacred.
Earth. O sacred Earth!
In the desert, where I was born, there is but one thing sacred, the guest!
Hagen Tronje shall be sacred as long as he regards the peace of my abode!
I fear that I am about to die. and if I do, I ask you to bury me in sacred ground.
Look. The sacred spells which protect the soul in its journey to the underworld have been chipped off of the coffin.
They were the sacred virgins of Isis.
Too sacred to talk about.
It's a question of religion, which is sacred.
Hospitality is sacred to Muslims.
Ensuring the peace in our world is the Guardians' sacred mission, even if we should come up against bizarre monsters.
The lama lost a sacred amulet.
They say her mother was a sacred dancer, her father a temple priest.
I love you as one adores sacred things.
What sacred things?
I'll swear by everything I hold sacred.
And what do you hold sacred?
To some of them, the elephant is sacred even alive.
Disorderly behavior in a sacred edifice. Is that you want to charge him with?
For disorderly behavior in a sacred edifice.
Natives hold it sacred.
He will want to bless the sacred bush.
Your sacred privilege of blowing each other to bits. is quite safe.
Then drum will join drum. flag will join flag. group will join group, Gau to Gau. and after that, this earlier divided people. will follow these sacred columns of the Nation.
Our sacred house is Japan.
A feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred.
Musically and dramatically, we have here a picture of the struggle between the profane and the sacred.
A sacred task you've done.
I've set back the sacred cause of reform, is that it?
To complete our sacred task we must be strong in our faith.
I took a sacred oath I would.
God and his angels guard your sacred throne and make you long become it!
She's sacred, isn't she?
He says nobody can touch his head because it's sacred. And his shoulders are, almost.
Quiet Simone, a mother is sacred.

News and current affairs

Over the long term, however, US policymakers must make steady progress in restoring confidence in the nation's fiscal health by cutting politically sacred programs like social security, Medicare, and defense.
One of the current generation of pessimists' sacred texts, The Limits to Growth, influences the environmental movement to this day.
Executives should make special efforts to break taboos, examine unchallenged assumptions, and question their businesses' most sacred rules.
This is a sacred rule of Chinese politics, one that is considered entirely legitimate.
Orthodoxy has always upheld the sacred rights of the creditor; political necessity has frequently demanded relief for the debtor.
Ultimately, however, we need to reconsider what for many is a sacred and immutable text: the UN Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.
It will be, at best, a small disturbance, in which few national sacred cows are slaughtered.
Each delineates a sacred sphere of freedom and order, innocence, spirituality and justice from our everyday world of chaos, bondage, injustice and guilt.
It moves in the sphere of the sacred.
But that sacred does not exist without the profane.
The experience and the sacred ceremony remain incomplete if tension between the field and the grandstand is missing.
They act according to clear, sacred rules.
With his over-familiarity, simplicity, and occasional vulgarity, Sarkozy undermined the dignity of his sacred function.
The base of world terrorism consists of daring fanatics who believe in a sacred, fiery destiny.
That is why Charlie Hebdo's mockery of the sacred beliefs of minorities (Jews, Muslims, and gays alike) is not an act of bravery.
All human beings are entitled to hold something - a place, an idea, an image - sacred.
Charlie Hebdo, of course, used humor precisely to challenge sacred cows.
He spoke of the Holy Land as the source of Christianity and the home of sacred shrines of Islam, but intentionally ignored the Biblical roots of Judaism and Jerusalem as the home of Hebrew kings and prophets.
In the view of early-twentieth-century right-wing European nationalists, Anglo-American capitalism, controlled by Jews, undermined the sacred ties of blood and soil.
In each case, they must decide whether to confront or endorse the sacred cows of nationalist and Islamist ideology.
It presupposed moral agnosticism and a plurality of meanings, none of which are sacred or compulsory to all.

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