unholy

Example Sentences

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A God’s-eye view captures sparks and flames tearing a circle around his unholy play.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

As they fell to a dour defeat in Braga, they completed the unholy trinity of scoring an own goal, missing a penalty and receiving a red card.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

Now one of Egypt's most sacred places - revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims - is at the heart of an unholy row over plans to turn it into a new tourism mega-project.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025

An unholy specimen, a building creature that is sufficiently weird, necessary, and profitable to wriggle to life in the city’s stifling landscape of land-use regulations: the double duplex.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2025

To the bombardiers, the walled city on its granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, a final abscess to be lanced away.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr