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How to use grail in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Grail means the Holy Grail. Example: “Becoming an astronaut was his grail.”

Examples of grail by meaning

nounThe Holy Grail.

  • The quest for the Grail is not archeology.1989, 1:06:54 from the start, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade^(https://archive.org/details/movie-hollywood-720p-sub-indonesia_202209/I...

nounSomething eagerly sought or quested for.

  • Becoming an astronaut was his grail.
  • How many of them had found the item they dreamt of, their personal grails?2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 214

More sentences with grail

  • Nanotechnology is the holy grail of medicine.From the entry holy grail
  • In fact, I never found the food world's unholy grail on offer anywhere in the land.2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry munchy box
  • I am beyond my years, but I cannot keep count, as my Abacus runs to computer grail.2003, OBanya, Sickles Raised from Dust: And Other Poems. From the entry beyond one's years
  • Long a crate-digger’s grail and never before available on CD, this is one obscurity that really lives up to the hype.2008, Signal to Noise: The Journal of Improvised and Experimental Music, South Hero, Vt.: Pete Gershon, →OCLC, page 103. From the entry cratedigger
  • So scalability became the holy grail.May 12, 2025, Sarah Levinger, Post of "X" (formerly "Twitter"). From the entry scale
  • They stared at it as if it was the one ring or the holy grail or a horcrux, or perhaps all of them rolled into one.2013, Adam Rawlins, The Strange Encounter of Sally Shakespeare and Toby Tinker, page 24. From the entry horcrux
  • “Making money on a constant basis is the holy grail, and Ray and Bridgewater have done that,” Ng Kok-Song, the chief investment officer of the Singapore fund, told me.2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN. From the entry holy grail

Meaning of grail

  1. noun The Holy Grail.
  2. noun Something eagerly sought or quested for.
  3. noun A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.

Full definition of grail

Questions about grail in a sentence

How do you use grail in a sentence?
Grail is used as a noun. For example: “Becoming an astronaut was his grail.”
What is a short sentence with grail?
“Becoming an astronaut was his grail.”
What does grail mean?
Grail means the Holy Grail.

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