How to Use the Holy Family in a Sentence

the Holy Family

noun
  • Children, youths and adults serve as the Holy Family, sheep, shepherds, angels and donkeys.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Red and gold baubles, green wreaths and ribbons were dotted around the Holy Family Church, and a tall Christmas tree draped in tinsel was erected in the corner.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Its title refers to the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt to escape King Herod’s massacre of the infants of Bethlehem.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Mothers who have previously delivered children at the Holy Family maternity ward say its closure will be a blow to the community.
    — Kristina Rex, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • Now through June 21, the exhibition will remain at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Orange.
    — Lillian Ashworth, Oc Register, 18 June 2026
  • Francis was also a tireless advocate for peace in Gaza, and would call Gaza's Church of the Holy Family nightly during the war between Hamas and Israel.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
  • About 440 people sheltering at the Holy Family Church of Gaza City planned to remain there, along with clergy assisting them, although the church has few defenses.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • This assertion that Mary was a child of a well-to-do family might have some historical validity since this text was composed at a time when the poverty and celibacy of the Holy Family had become associated with her nunlike virtue.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But now that a ceasefire is in place in Gaza, children like Trazi finally got to decorate the Holy Family Church, Gaza’s only Catholic church, which was still largely intact despite two years of brutal war.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The Roman Catholic cardinal visited Gaza in July following an Israeli strike on the compound of the parish of the Holy Family, which killed three people and injured nine others, including the parish priest.
    — Nada Aboul Kheir, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The figures – dressed in flak jackets emblazoned with the acronym for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, are depicted approaching the Holy Family and the Wise Men with handcuffs, as if preparing to make an arrest.
    — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, went to the Holy Family Church in Gaza City in his fourth trip to the Palestinian enclave after Israel launched its campaign there – and for the first time since a deadly Israeli strike on the parish in July.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Every day since October 2023, the late Pope Francis rang the Holy Family Church in Gaza City to speak to church leaders and some of the Palestinians staying in the parish, Father Gabriel Romanelli, previously told CNN.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 21 Dec. 2025
  • In addition to the pyramids and GEM, Cairo, snorkeling, swimming and sunbathing in the Red Sea, dining, culture (including belly-dancing), eco and adventure tourism, and spiritual travel like the Religious Complex and the Holy Family Trail, where Jesus and Mary walked, are among the possibilities.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026

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