How to Use unholy in a Sentence

unholy

adjective
  • They have spent an unholy amount of money on the project.
  • Our finances were an unholy mess.
  • Some unholy mix of all of that?
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • Stage sets for their live shows are designed like an unholy church.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 1 Sep. 2022
  • To think what my third-grade self would’ve done if faced with that unholy terror.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Brunch is a breeding ground for hybrids both holy and unholy.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • This is an unholy view, like a widescreen television on its side.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 3 May 2018
  • And then there’s the unholy alliance of toilet seats and food.
    — Nora Taylor, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Battles with the unholy thrive on churchly tones.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Thousands of them had massed at the base for an unholy pilgrimage.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Then, there were the male rompers, and with them, some unholy takes on the male summer statement short.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 21 June 2017
  • The infant’s eyes appeared to be glowing in the night as if lit with an unholy fire.
    — Melissa Locker, Time, 15 Nov. 2019
  • But for now, its core incongruities are causing an unholy mess.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But the union between dresses and jeans, as unholy as some might perceive it, is here to stay.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
  • That means a huge payday for the shaman and his team, but no amount of money is worth the unholy hell unleashed.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • But the megachurch pastor also happens to be embroiled in this unholy mess.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
  • Seal was playing from the same dressing room ceiling that bore down unholy lighting.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • There’s still time to salvage the situation and clean up this unholy mess.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The very act felt wrong, and the resulting sandwich tasted even more unholy.
    — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Nowhere is this unholy alliance more obvious than on the business page.
    — James McCarthy, National Review, 30 Nov. 2020
  • But who doubts that money has an unholy influence on our elections?
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Because that performance was something unholy — and not in a good way.
    — Vulture, 6 Feb. 2023
  • There’s an unholy gnarliness to Ripley that Scott sells well.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 22 May 2024
  • White folks, the joke goes, don't run when confronted by some unholy entity.
    — John Blake, CNN, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Finally, an unholy army of the night that doesn’t need overtime and won’t try to (gasp) unionize!
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • This type of coverage gives them an unholy outlet of violence to be known and seen.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Only the wind's unholy engine, its sharp shifts in all directions.
    — Sandy Solomon, Scientific American, 20 July 2022
  • Muslims consider pig's blood to be unholy and ingesting pork to be a sin.
    — Katie Reilly, Time, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Let the countdown begin to eating an unholy amount of green papaya salad.
    — Allyson Reedy, The Know, 9 May 2017
  • The cold breeze created an unholy confluence of newsprint fumes and van exhaust.
    — Andrew Bockhold, Longreads, 25 Aug. 2017

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