chalice

Example Sentences

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“You need fire and you need a chalice. To me, that fire is my creativity. It’s my birthright to create. And that chalice is the community that holds me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2026

He once described the prospect of a humiliating cease-fire with Iraq as drinking from a poisoned chalice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

She was thrilled to be a chalice bearer at the event but said she was stunned by the bishop's behaviour at their first meeting soon afterwards.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

He said some people had warned him that the job would be a "poisoned chalice".

From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025

Then one of them reached right in his chalice and helped herself.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez