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
Analytics border on Holy Writ in baseball front offices and for many sportswriters, and this too acts to strangely diminish stars even in their moment of glory.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2019
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
The Coens present the novel's dialogue more or less as written; indeed they revere it as Holy Writ.
From Time • Dec. 22, 2010
Soon she’d be saying it was just like having a preacher live with them to hear Johnny Tremain read Holy Writ.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.