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

I had been reared in a stately Spanish household, where was preserved sacredly the old punctilious tradition of Spain.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hope that The Hague Tribunal will bear in mind that it is sacredly pledged to maintain justice.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe