chalice

Example Sentences

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“You need fire and you need a chalice. To me, that fire is my creativity. It’s my birthright to create. And that chalice is the community that holds me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2026

He once described the prospect of a humiliating cease-fire with Iraq as drinking from a poisoned chalice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

"In the past, Eurovision was a great honour for so many artists," but now, "it might feel like a poisoned chalice to some".

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

Thom: The Rangers job is a poisoned chalice.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025

And she knew, without knowing how to explain why, that Jesus was entirely present, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in the wine in the golden chalice and in the bread on the golden plate.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith