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How to use sanctum in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Sanctum means a place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom. Example: “A diary, after all, is a sanctum for self-confession.”

Examples of sanctum by meaning

nounA place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom.

  • A diary, after all, is a sanctum for self-confession.1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 13

More sentences with sanctum

  • One of Shiva's revered Jyotirlingas is protected within the inner sanctum of the city's Kashi Vishwanath temple.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 13. From the entry jyotirlinga
  • Gleefully and legally intruding upon the sanctum of the wealthy linksters, we walked the mitigation meadows.2010, Robert Michael Pyle, chapter 18, in Mariposa Road, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 158. From the entry wealthy
  • The deities installed inside the sanctum sanctorum, are the chlorite figures of Balarama, Krushna and Subhadra.2008, Orissa: An Encyclopaedia of Events, 2 edition, Sankalpa Publications, page 53. From the entry Balarama
  • In this ritzy Italian sanctum thoughts of salmons and haggises vanish at the flick of a cannellone.1987, Stephen Birnbaum, editor, Birnbaum’s Great Britain and Ireland 1988 (Stephen Birnbaum Travel Guides), Boston, Mass.: Houghton…. From the entry cannellone
  • A piercing scream broke in upon the stillness of the editorial sanctum yesterday afternoon.1922 March 24, “Now—The Point Was This—”, in The Chadron Journal, volume XXXVIII, number 26, Chadron, Neb.. From the entry bookkeeperess
  • Beaumont, the editor, too--I suppose he is lying upon the blue-and-red Turkey carpet which adorned his sanctum.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry Turkey carpet
  • Trouble broke out at Kalighat temple on Monday morning after police barred pandas from near the sanctum sanctorum.2010 March 9, Rith Basu, “Panda-monium at Kalighat temple”, in The Telegraph, Kolkata, West Bengal: ABP Pvt. Ltd., →OCLC. From the entry panda
  • You open these big brass doors, and there in this sanctum santorum, this holy of holies, is this little tiny cabin.2008 October 22, Brian Lamb, Susan Swain, editors, Abraham Lincoln: Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth President, PublicAffairs…. From the entry sanctum santorum
  • Then doors of the sanctum santorum close with a crash.2004 December 28, Michael Mitchell, The Molly Fire, Toronto: ECW Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 104. From the entry sanctum santorum
  • A mandir is a home to God as represented by the deity singled out for honour within the building's inner sanctum.2003 September 30, Jerome Monahan, Places of worship, week 4: a mandir. From the entry mandir
  • From there he slipped neatly into his sanctum.1925, Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys. From the entry side door
  • The little room in which he found himself was plainly the bookseller's sanctum, and contained his own private library.1919, Christopher Morley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC. From the entry browse
  • The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.1919, S.A., “Pharmacy in Russia”, in Soviet Russia, volume 1, number 27, page 6. From the entry apothecary
  • Half an hour later, the door of the inner sanctum opened and a portly and important-looking Franco-Levantine walked out and Peter was ushered into Mr.2012, Nestor Pierrakos, Maktoub, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry Franco-Levantine
  • Failing to penetrate General Motors’ secure corporate sanctum, I’m forced to imagine the signs of culture shock: apfelstrudel has replaced Krispy Kremes at morning meetings.2008 March 2, Lawrence Ulrich, “Traveling on Dual Passports”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021. From the entry apfelstrudel
  • In the middle of Shalmi, the working-class inner sanctum of Lahori Shiadom, I find myself swept along a tide of sweat, blood and tears at four in the morning.2005, Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed, page 207. From the entry Shiadom
  • Why, every 20 years, does Japan rebuild its most sacred shrine, uprooting the sun goddess Amaterasu from her old sanctum and resettling her in a new one?1993 October 7, David E. Sanger, “Ise Journal; Sun Goddess's Sojourn (Will Shinto's Star Rise?)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry sun goddess

Meaning of sanctum

  1. noun A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom.

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Questions about sanctum in a sentence

How do you use sanctum in a sentence?
Sanctum is used as a noun. For example: “A diary, after all, is a sanctum for self-confession.”
What is a short sentence with sanctum?
“From there he slipped neatly into his sanctum.”
What does sanctum mean?
Sanctum means a place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom.

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