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

Whoever takes up the leadership position will almost be drinking from a "poisoned chalice", adds Prof Brown.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

“It’s blood now,” Abel whispered when the priest raised the chalice with the wine, and his thin voice mixed mysteriously into the ringing altar bell.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya