Sentence examples for big chalice from inspiring English sources

In the center, like a big chalice on an altar, gleamed the ornate, silver Stanley Cup.

Pilgrimage to the Brooklyn Museum to see the Great Chalice of Antioch.

The expectation Jones mentioned appeared to have mortally affected Muhammad, whose golden opportunity arrived inside the biggest poisoned chalice of recent memory.

Firstly, a manager must be appointed, with whoever accepts one of the game's biggest poisoned chalices needing to confront some complicated politics at a club where the pathway from academy to first team seems virtually un-navigable.

This is, after all, the man who took on the challenge of bringing Wonder Woman to the big screen - a chalice so poisoned that none has so far been able to successfully drink from it.

You can debunk all the myths of the oak's presentation, and sweep the rumours under the rug, but a big swastika on a chalice is hard to hide.

The Chalice was a big globe shaped Yule candle and the rest of the candles were tea lights and stumps.

From a chalice we learn how big were the hands that were meant to hold it; how much liquid people liked at once and could consume; what kind of liquid, cold or hot, basic or acidic, they considered potable; what kind of surface their cups might sit on.

He is a worthy and short-priced favorite, but if history can teach us anything about the nation's biggest race it's that great expectation is often a poisoned chalice.

But without realising it, he has the big bucks in the boot – bound to be a poison chalice, no?

But big health names failed to step forward for the job, viewed widely as a poisoned chalice, and Behan's track record in the department will have ensured he had no shortage of willing referees among senior NHS figures.