How to Use the Holy Grail in a Sentence

the Holy Grail

noun
  • Just keep scrolling to see what happened to the Holy Grail cast.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • It has been called the Holy Grail of Shipwrecks.
    — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Shopping for workout clothes can feel like a quest for the Holy Grail.
    — Neha Tandon, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Go see Rosslyn Castle and try to find the Holy Grail.
    — Riza Cruz, Vogue, 11 May 2026
  • The quest for the Holy Grail has nothing on my search for a truly great white T-shirt.
    — Abbey Stone, SELF, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Mikel Arteta’s ascent to the Holy Grail was long and gruelling.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Searching for this, however, is like searching for the Holy Grail.
    — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Pray for a miracle, like Arthur did with the Holy Grail, and let God show them the way.
    — Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • Leave it to Amazon shoppers, though, to find the Holy Grail of adaptive travel bags.
    — Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2025
  • This has made integration the Holy Grail of the marketing world.
    — Tim Maleeny, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • One of the most, uh, formative movies for me as a teen was Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
    — Tim Maurer, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Connery is awesome and a natural fit in this movie, which, naturally, is about the search for the Holy Grail.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 29 June 2023
  • The fan is placed at the edge of the catwalk and waits for the singer and her dancers to come skipping down the stage to hand off the Holy Grail of Swift fashion.
    — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • His staging had lots of prison bars and strip lighting, an odd setting for a medieval romance about an Arthurian knight's quest for the Holy Grail.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But there’s other talk in terms of the health aspect that there [are] certain metrics or tracking features that that these tech companies see as the Holy Grail.
    — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 30 July 2024
  • Achieving the dream of commercial fusion power is the Holy Grail of engineering and has been for 80 years.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The next progression is running off makes, the Holy Grail for transition teams because taking the ball out of the net gives the defense more time to retreat.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • For doctors and patients, the Holy Grail of medicine would be a simple blood or saliva test to detect all types of cancer before symptoms or sickness appears.
    — Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
  • For doctors and patients, the Holy Grail of medicine would be a simple blood or saliva test to detect all types of cancer before symptoms or sickness appears.
    — Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But as with the Holy Grail of ancient Christian legend, an early-detection multicancer test has long eluded all who have pursued it.
    — Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
  • But as with the Holy Grail of ancient Christian legend, an early-detection multicancer test has long eluded all who have pursued it.
    — Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Among the artifacts were several vessels, with one skeleton found clutching a ceramic chalice that resembled the shape of the Holy Grail.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The musical comedy is adapted from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
  • For die-hard eclipse chasers, the Holy Grail is a total eclipse – and in the path of totality, this year’s best destination is in central and western Mexico.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
  • This volcano is considered to be the Holy Grail for hikers, nature lovers and anyone who wants to challenge themselves by climbing Mount Pelée at least once in their lives.
    — Martinique Tourism Authority, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Set on a stark hillside among a group of men in white button-ups and black pants, this was a take on the opera’s protectors of the Holy Grail as a contemporary cult over which planets loomed and orbited in projections.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The Ducks have already assured themselves of their first winning record since 2017-18 but the playoffs have been the Holy Grail the team has been chasing since then.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The show opens with a set piece in Paris, helpfully captioned 1307, in which some soldiers interrogate a group of women over the whereabouts of the Holy Grail.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Most eye-catching is one labeled the Holy Grail, a five-and-a-half-foot-high, 1,500-pound piece of quartz crystal formed near Hot Springs, Arkansas.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
  • Many of the gags are either derivative or homages, depending on your perspective, including the vicious killer bunnies that bring to mind Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024

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