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416 examples of Sacred in a sentence

1868: The second Fort Laramie Treaty clearly guarantees the sovereignty of the Great Sioux Nation and the Lakotas' ownership of the sacred Black Hills.
The same sacred object could not be touched by hands of different races.
Are you reliable, stable, familiar, safe, secure, sacred, contemplative or wise like the Dalai Lama or Yoda?
So we rushed over to Sargeant Street, and we held hands in a circle and we looked at the pavement, and we said, "This is sacred ground because we make it so, because everywhere in our city where people lose their lives to violence needs to be sacred ground."
And the other women arrived and they sat in a circle, and Michaela bathed my head with the sacred water.
Is nothing sacred anymore, for heaven's sake?
It is really a sacred space.
And one of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.
Now profane is the opposite of sacred.
Durkheim called this level the level of the sacred because he believed that the function of religion was to unite people into a group, into a moral community.
And once people circle around some sacred object or value, they'll then work as a team and fight to defend it.
I'm saying we are Homo duplex and this staircase takes us up from the profane level to the level of the sacred.
The staircase takes us from the experience of life as profane or ordinary upwards to the experience of life as sacred, or deeply interconnected.
I mean that we evolved to see sacredness all around us and to join with others into teams and circle around sacred objects, people and ideas.
But, sex is sacred.
MG: I would say that sex is absolutely sacred.
And it's sacred in Germany, and it's sacred in the United States, and it's sacred in France and so many places around the world.
And the fact that 98 percent of women in my country who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred.
To me, that's incredibly sacred, too.
This reminded the ancient Egyptians of their god Khepri, who renews the ball of the sun every morning, which is how that dung-rolling scarab became that sacred scarab on the breastplate of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
There's something sacred about a space where you can work on a project, and you don't have to justify to anyone that it's going to make a lot of money, that it's going to save mankind, or even that it's feasible.
It's really become sacred to us.
It binds us into teams that circle around sacred values but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
It's miraculous, and part of the explanation is this ability to circle around sacred values.
It's a sacred rock, and when people circle something together, they unite, they can trust each other, they become one.
The most important point I want to make to you about this is the sacred and somewhat over-romanticized doctor-patient one-on-one is a relic of the past.
They make it sacred.
And they said, "Well, we can take you there, but you can't go inside because that's the sacred altar, where we do sacrifices every year to keep up those annual cycles of fertility for the fields."
Even though they look different on the outside, inside, they're all the same, and from time to time they would gather at a sacred cave deep inside the forest to celebrate their unity.
But as humans with hearts, we can all rejoice in the unity of life, and perhaps we can change what once happened in that sacred cave.
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