How to Use Holy Grail in a Sentence

Holy Grail

noun
  • Finding a cure for cancer is the holy grail of medical researchers.
  • That Holy Grail shirt is now in even closer reach for the rest of us.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Finding the perfect chocolate chip cookie has been my Holy Grail for years now.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Finding the perfect chocolate chip cookie has been my Holy Grail for years now.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This kind of emotional security is a holy grail in partnerships.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • That’s not to say that every suggestion made by the youth collective will be taken as Holy Grail.
    — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 July 2023
  • For Waabi, this means briskly getting from idea to product and to revenue – a Holy Grail for any startup.
    — Richard Bishop, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Schizophrenia has always been psychiatry’s white whale, its cure an elusive Holy Grail.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Combining the two would make for a Holy Grail of engine design, but doing so has been problematic.
    — New Atlas, 23 Feb. 2026
  • One of the skeletons was even holding a chalice that resembled the cinematic Holy Grail.
    — George Nelson For Artnews, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The Subaru guys really cut loose, pursuing the high-tech Holy Grail as if there were no tomorrow.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 7 May 2023
  • Finding a copy with the original songs included is something of a Holy Grail among music collectors of the era.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2022
  • That’s why the prospect of a technological breakthrough with fusion has been called energy’s Holy Grail.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This time, his father (Sean Connery) has gone missing while searching for the mythical Holy Grail.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Like ambrosia of the heavens, these sweets are delicious beyond comparison — the culinary Holy Grail.
    — New York Times, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Monetary policy’s Holy Grail is money, not interest rates.
    — Nino Paoli, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Their ultimate Holy Grail, however, remained strictly off limits.
    — Andrew Lawler, Time, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The phenomenon is a Holy Grail for materials and energy researchers.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The Lombardi is more Holy Grail than trophy, the end of what can only be described as a torturous emotional pilgrimage.
    — Ali Watkins, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Inspired by the King Arthur legend, Holy Grail is a timeless comedy, the rare kind of film that will still be making people laugh hundreds of years from now.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 June 2024
  • The Bruins’ resplendent regular season certainly adds pressure to their pursuit of hockey’s Holy Grail.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Taxing deliveries will encourage people to run errands for themselves and thus put more cars on the road in direct contradiction to the holy grail of liberal environmental policy.
    — Kevin Igoe, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Brazil, for which co-production has become a Holy Grail, can now dangle once more a minority co-production fund to fire up first partnerships with international partners.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
  • To make a chair out of just one piece of material is something of a design Holy Grail, one that became more attainable around midcentury with advancements in plastics technology.
    — Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Sure, 2023 holds serious challenges and financial pressures, but digital transformation need not be your Holy Grail.
    — Clint Boulton, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Often called the holy grail of clean energy, nuclear fusion creates four times more energy per kilogram of fuel than traditional nuclear fission and 4 million times more than burning coal, with no greenhouse gasses or long-term radioactive waste.
    — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The ultimate Holy Grail in 2025 will be rebuilding trust and loyalty with consumers by establishing emotional attachment.
    — Billee Howard, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • In the long-term—and the holy grail of Congolese protest movements going back generations—the Congolese people must address the crippling crisis of corruption and misgovernance, in particular in the security forces.
    — Jason K. Stearns, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
  • High-temperature superconductors have long been viewed as the ‘Holy Grail’ of energy technology, with potential applications in lossless power transmission, magnetic levitation, and advanced computing.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Drink coffee the Irish way Visit restaurants Holy Grail, Moerlein Lager House, Killer Queen, The Park and Jefferson Social and choose between a two-ounce tasting of a classic Irish coffee or a specialty Irish coffee.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2026

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