Sentence examples for something of a sacred from inspiring English sources

For Mrs. Figueiredo, the detached two-family house on McWhorter Street in Newark has been something of a sacred trust -- though with an occasional hellish twist.

By then Laing had become something of a sacred cow on the left, a darling and victim of the celebrity culture.

Since then it has become something of a sacred text among activists, and even the odd cabinet minister has claimed it as a favourite book.

Many of the modern country singers in the bro mode name-drop old country legends, namely Conway Twitty, whose 1980 hit "I'd Love to Lay You Down" has, unfortunately, become something of a sacred script.

The nuclear option has troubled Democrats like Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, who are sensitive to the notion that the rules of the Senate are something of a sacred text and should not be tampered with by exploiting a loophole.

But as the number of pilgrims has steadily increased in the last 50 years, the area immediately surrounding the "Grotto of Apparitions" has developed into something of a sacred shopping center.

Cotton Mather's "Death of the Cool": Counting Spoon's Britt Daniel and Oasis' Noel Gallagher among its fans, this band's 1997 album "Kon Tiki" became something of a hard-to-find sacred text for power pop fans up to its 2012 reissue.

About 2000 years ago in what is today western Illinois, a group of Native Americans buried something unusual in a sacred place.

Since earliest prehistory people have felt the need for ways to connect with something larger than ourselves, something of the sacred and ineffable.

Lest we forget". The ode burdens Anzac Day with the status of a sacred duty, something Bob Hawke accepted in his 1987 welcome home parade for Vietnam veterans, who had until then been excluded by the RSL from Anzac Day marches.

The impulse to try certainly seems irresistible, and there is something of a rite of passage in barbecuing sacred cows.