Example Sentences

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No one would call him a minimalist, but his holy of holies is not to allow his productions to eclipse his performers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

Jerusalem was also the site of the holiest of holies of Judaism, the most sacred of spaces where the Temple of Solomon had stood until its destruction by the Romans.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The country, he said, is facing “an attack on the holy of holies: the security of the State of Israel.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2023

Traditionally, most Orthodox Jews avoided the mount itself for fear of treading on the spot where the temples’ holy of holies once stood.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2021

But at the wonder in the boy’s eyes she collected herself and asked him who he was, so young and yet seemingly so dedicated to this high service in Greece’s holy of holies.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton