Holy Writ
Example Sentences
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Huneven’s fellow congregants must be poring over these pages like Holy Writ searching for signs of their faces and foibles.
From Washington Post • May 3, 2022
Leahy, a strong institutionalist and protector of the Senate’s prerogatives, viewed the blue slip as something akin to a Holy Writ.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2018
The Knowledge says that London is Holy Writ, a great mystery to be pored over, and that a corps of municipal Talmudists must be delegated to that task.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2014
Flood narrative in cuneiform thus preceded the Hebrew text of Holy Writ by more than a millennium.
From Time • Mar. 27, 2014
Since a Suggestion from the Master is a Command not unlike Holy Writ, I shall digress and comply at the same Time.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
