Example Sentences

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They have held onto that very sacredly because they did not want to join India.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 16, 2019

Many in Congress view this power as a sacredly serious duty.

From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2018

More vitally, Pryce’s portrayal grounds Shylock persuasively in a belief that the law applies as sacredly to a Jew as it does to the Christians who spit on him.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2016

The novel's two heroines both fall in love with a masterful Indian prince�one sacredly, the other profanely.

From Time Magazine Archive

However weak and humble any man may be, his honor is sacredly above offense.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.