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

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

Flood narrative in cuneiform thus preceded the Hebrew text of Holy Writ by more than a millennium.

From Time • Mar. 27, 2014

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