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
He said some people had warned him that the job would be a "poisoned chalice".
From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025
The health portfolio can be seen as something of a poisoned chalice, given the huge challenges facing the NHS and social services.
From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024
On the first step of the stairwell, a golden chalice gleamed.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
