How to Use sacrosanct in a Sentence

sacrosanct

adjective
  • The tradition is regarded as sacrosanct.
  • Both were once deemed sacrosanct.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
  • This is supposed to be a very sacrosanct function of the press.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
  • But the open bidding process for the draft has proven that nothing is sacrosanct.
    — Jenny Vrentas, The MMQB, 5 June 2017
  • But that status isn’t sacrosanct or out-of-bounds for debate.
    — Paul A. Gigot, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Some threatened to vote against their party’s sacrosanct tax bill.
    — Marcy Gordon, The Seattle Times, 9 Dec. 2017
  • People want to make sure that the Bill of Rights is held sacrosanct.
    — Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Because it has been revealed that the look of your favorite team is far from sacrosanct.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 15 May 2017
  • Few city planning concepts are as sacrosanct as the idea that growth is good and decline is bad.
    — Christopher Briem, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
  • The owner had made his money in the food industry, thus this space was sacrosanct.
    — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 9 July 2024
  • The name of Raf Simons will remain sacrosanct, in the same way.
    — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The First Amendment is sacrosanct.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Serve with ridged potato chips like Ruffles, because some things are sacrosanct.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Because the music is sacrosanct.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Most teams regard the format, if not the precise design, of their home jersey as sacrosanct.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 May 2024
  • Some would say that things like music are sacrosanct and have to do with very base-level things about our humanity.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 6 Sep. 2021
  • In a nation that idolizes its tradesmen, nothing is more sacrosanct than a tradie’s pickup truck.
    — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • User data was sacrosanct as far as the Twitter lawyers were concerned.
    — Bradley Hope, Wired, 1 Sep. 2020
  • In Taylor Swift's music, few things if any are as sacrosanct as childhood.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2017
  • For them, the idea of determinism – that one thing leads to another – is sacrosanct.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Freedom of the press is a sacrosanct right of Western democracies.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Mar. 2017
  • This time should be viewed as sacrosanct, not to be interrupted except in the case of a true emergency.
    — Robin Elledge, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The right to life being the source of all rights, the property necessary to sustain life was sacrosanct.
    — Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
  • Oscar nights were sacrosanct for me as a yeshiva boy growing up on Long Island.
    — Howard Rosenman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Housing regulations are not sacrosanct, to be sure.
    — Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But in most states, equity returns remain sacrosanct.
    — Nick Bowlin, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • And there is nothing sacrosanct about the age of 18 for buying certain guns (or voting for that matter).
    — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The integrity of the socialist idea is sacrosanct to the true believer.
    — Algis Valiunas, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The rout in the oil sector has been so swift and severe that once-sacrosanct corporate positions are being trimmed.
    — Scott Lanman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Some view that limit as sacrosanct, but the Midway hardly has the feel of a coastal community.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019

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