How to Use sanctum in a Sentence

sanctum

noun
  • Her office was her sanctum.
  • In the past few weeks, as schools have sent students home, that sanctum has been breached.
    — Agnes Callard, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2020
  • That seems the inner core of those with access to the inner sanctum.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • World leaders have the music on their playlists and the stars to their inner sanctums.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2019
  • What was once the sanctum of private thought had a microphone.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The inner sanctum has long tables with dozens of tech people clacking away.
    — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2018
  • Stepping outside the sanctum of the dining room is like being released from a spell.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The virus has also breached the world's inner sanctums of power, showing that no one is beyond its reach.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 13 Mar. 2020
  • And scroll on to join us on a journey through Milligan’s inner sanctum.
    — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Even in the centuries since, these lands have persisted as a rugged sanctum for outdoorsmen.
    — Zach Montague, New York Times, 22 July 2019
  • Kelly has created this and allowed the inner sanctum to be shared.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
  • Reed saw his own role as storming the West’s literary inner sanctum.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • The inner sanctum of the clubhouse, the guys, the coaching staff, everything about it.
    — Stephen Hawkins, ajc, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Such is the push-pull dynamic within the Twins’ inner sanctum.
    — Mike Berardino, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2017
  • Suddenly the gates swing open to reveal a sanctum of velvet drapes, leather chairs, and a bar lined with bottles of brown whiskey.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • Suddenly the gates swing open to reveal a sanctum of velvet drapes, leather chairs, and a bar lined with bottles of brown whiskey.
    — Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2011
  • Those in the sanctum of club seats and stadium restaurants even overturned tables to create safer havens.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 18 July 2021
  • Part of the character's inner sanctum is her hair and makeup room, which is bursting with costumes.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Before long, the team brought Mejdal into their inner sanctum.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The five-foot-something Nataraja idol here is awe-inspiring even in the cold darkness of the sanctum.
    — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 18 Dec. 2019
  • There is no way to be sure of what the billionaires are telling Putin inside the sanctum of the Kremlin.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Yet the prospect of inviting outsiders into her inner sanctum makes Good uneasy.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, Longreads, 11 Jan. 2018
  • And then there were the Satanists — who welcomed him into their sanctum without judgment.
    — Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Emmett’s inner sanctum acts as a symbol for his asceticism and his refusal to engage with the world.
    — Jerrine Tan, Wired, 16 June 2021
  • One, a woman, expressed a sense of women being unable to crack into the inner sanctum.
    — Tribune News Service, OregonLive.com, 12 Aug. 2017
  • This is the inner sanctum where the foundational code that determines how the device works lives.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2019
  • There is a scrupulousness in his depiction of the queen’s inner sanctum, attention down to the last dessert fork.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 12 Dec. 2019
  • There are times when our democracy depends on leaks to learn what is going on in the inner sanctums of Washington.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 31 May 2017
  • Visits to the studio sanctum are by invitation only, though.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • So what kind of cultural impact can the Trumps have on a city that, barring those in the inner sanctum, is somewhat hostile to them?
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Marie Claire, 16 May 2017

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