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
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
