Collocations for "sacred"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "sacred" in context.
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sacred
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- sacred [scrolls, manuscripts, books, texts, relics]
- [find, discover, burn, destroy, restore] the sacred [scrolls]
- is a sacred [institution, animal, grove, valley, mount]
- address the sacred congregation
- has the sacred honor of
- has the sacred [duty, right] to
- is every [man's, woman's, person's] sacred duty to
- perform a sacred [ritual, custom, tradition]
- [swore, took, pledged] a sacred oath
- on sacred ground
- a sacred burial ground [for, of]
- is sacred to the [Navajo] people
- is [considered, held] sacred by the [Inuit] people
- the [book, painting, letter] is very sacred to them
- Is nothing sacred?!
- [technology, motherhood, free will] is a sacred cow
- the sacred cow of [motherhood, India, Hinduism]
- in sacred memory of the [dead, victims]
- lost their sacred [possessions, belongings]
- [an hour, a morning] sacred to [study, reviews, evaluations, practicing]
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