graven image

Example Sentences

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As Jehovah’s Witnesses who believed that venerating the flag violated God’s prohibition against bowing to graven images, the Gobitas family argued that the flag salute infringed the children’s First Amendment rights.

From Salon

By every measure, we are again in an era defined by a hostility to graven images.

From The Wall Street Journal

Catholics and Lutherans deny "Thou shall not worship graven images" affirmed by Jews and other Christians.

From New York Times

Mr. Phillips is not a church, a political pamphleteer or a schoolchild being forced to honor a graven image.

From New York Times

Here are some Jefferson quotes that visitors will not find on his memorial, a Roman pantheon-style temple to liberty where the Sage of Monticello's graven image keeps vigil over the Tidal Basin in Washington DC.

From BBC