How to Use holiness in a Sentence

holiness

noun
  • True holiness can come from deep friendship.
    — Jason Derose, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The late pope blessed the church and the world with his intellect and holiness.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Near the end of his life, Casey's holiness had become well known.
    — Maya Bell, jsonline.com, 18 July 2025
  • But there's also so much light, so much joy, and a celebration of love's holiness in all its forms.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • If your child’s Halloween costume is a little too spooky this year, a touch of holiness couldn’t hurt.
    — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Oct. 2021
  • At midnight, in the glimmering light of her nimbus, in the holiness of candle and wine.
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • The health and holiness that appear were actually there all along.
    — Douglas Sytsma, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Mark was someone whose personal holiness shone out in every aspect of his life.
    — Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Those who live a life of righteousness and holiness will be strengthened against trouble and hardship.
    — Martha Sorren, Woman's Day, 1 June 2022
  • There is a holiness in one’s duty to be as productive as possible.
    — Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
  • Words cannot describe the holiness that permeated that church.
    — The Rev. Ellin Dize, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Some even suggest that this trend marks a new era of personal holiness in those elected to the papacy.
    — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Some Jews remove their shoes while praying there, another nod to the site’s holiness.
    — Shayndi Raice, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
  • There was a holiness that permeated the chapel 24/7 for eight months.
    — Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Have no ambition, affection, nor aim apart from holiness.
    — Larissa Snorek, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2025
  • For instance, the fruit’s holiness is signaled in the Pentateuch.
    — Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
  • To me the idea of brokenness and holiness really go together.
    — Jane Ratcliffe, Longreads, 15 June 2019
  • While his death may be a reminder of the lifestyle tension between hip-hop and holiness, the musical blending appears to be here to stay.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2021
  • On the great south lawn, guests gathered in groups, anxious to greet the new Jesuit in the family, with his new black habit and his new air of holiness.
    — John L’heureux, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • Surely, his life as a simple, faithful priest offers an inspiring model of holiness.
    — Jeff Cimmino, National Review, 29 July 2017
  • If cleanliness is next to holiness, Buc-ee’s beaver is approaching deity status.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Our present culture turns the phrase upside down, worshiping outward appearance and the holiness of beauty.
    — David Roper, idahostatesman, 26 Jan. 2018
  • This was the difference between chasing holiness and choosing wholeness.
    — Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Making a commitment to pray the rosary daily also reminds us that prayer is outside of Mass is essential to growth in holiness.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 30 Sep. 2017
  • To be denied communion is essentially to be denied one's right to the holiness of Catholicism.
    — Monica Haider, CNN, 30 Nov. 2019
  • There’s a sort of holiness in donburi’s simplicity, which is endless, permeable and variable.
    — Bryan Washington, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • Even adversaries in the Arab world have never sunk to attacking the holiness of the Western Wall.
    — Steven Burg, Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Priestliness was associated with holiness and cleanliness and being ready to present to the gods.
    — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 20 Jan. 2016
  • Once Israel was destroyed by the Babylonians, the holiness ceased.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 1 June 2021
  • Andrew’s was a life dedicated to Christ’s Church, in profound communion, on a way to holiness.
    — Nr Symposium, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020

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