Example Sentences

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The perfume, Lavs, is a concentrated version of the one he made to spritz on the papal garments before they were delivered to the Vatican’s inner sancta.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017

Bunhill Fields has long fascinated historians and romantics alike and is considered the terra sancta of English Nonconformity.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2011

The flooding war-boom, which had gradually engulfed city after city across the U.S., was now lapping finally into the last sancta of the rich in Miami�and in New York.

From Time Magazine Archive

On an indifferently argued staff paper he scribbles: "0 sancta sim-plicitas."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Holy Father, immediately traversing Rome, ascended on his knees the scala sancta.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell