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adjective

sacrosanct

must be kept sacred

In a sentence

Six example sentences with sacrosanct, each labelled with its topic.

  • Friday afternoons are sacrosanct at the studio: no meetings, no email, nothing but whatever each designer wants to build.

    Business

  • The client could move any wall except the great staircase, which the conservation officer treated as sacrosanct from the first meeting.

    Architecture

  • In that orchestra the conductor's tempo markings were sacrosanct, and no soloist dared stretch a phrase without asking first.

    Music

  • Her pregame routine is sacrosanct: same three songs, same left shoe first, and nobody speaks to her for ten minutes.

    Basketball

  • The family's dumpling recipe is sacrosanct; a cousin who once added ginger has not been allowed near the kitchen since.

    Cooking

  • Both parties treat the secret ballot as sacrosanct, and no reform bill has ever proposed touching it.

    Politics

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