How to Use holy day in a Sentence

holy day

noun

• Their requests were either ignored or denied by officials who said the solar eclipse was not listed as a holy day for their religions, according to court documents.
  — Erin Nolan, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• Prison officials ultimately denied permission to him and four other plaintiffs to be exempt from the lockdown order, citing its own calendar that did not list the event as a holy day.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• The rain didn’t interrupt the strict rhythms of the holy day.
  — Ismail Ibrahim, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2023
• Attending mass on a high holy day is very much part of the job.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2024
• Irish, so that’s a higher holy day to me than Christmas.
  — Janice Murphy, cleveland, 3 May 2021
• The holy day also arrives after the 40-day Lenten season, which ends on the evening of Holy Thursday.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
• During the holy day, some churches mark the foreheads of worshippers with an ash cross.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 30 Jan. 2024
• The holy day commemorating the biblical story of the arrival of the three wise men bearing gifts, marks the end of the Christmas season.
  — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
• The holy day brought a number of alumni to the campus that weekend – former students on active duty with the IDF, who happened to bring their weapons.
  — Eben Brown, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2023
• Both wars began with surprise attacks on Jewish holy days.
  — Dov Waxman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
• On Friday, none of the detainees showed up for trial because Friday is Islam's sabbath or holy day.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2021
• That this insiders’ account of Cypress Hill arrives on April 20, cannabis culture’s high holy day, shouldn’t come as a surprise.
  — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• Yom Kippur, the most solemn and holy day in the Jewish religion, begins at sundown Tuesday and ends at sundown Wednesday.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 4 Oct. 2022
• Fridays are holy days of rest in the Middle East, but today the region braces itself for the awful possibility of broader conflict.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
• The royal couple are hosting the Mirvises because of Shabbat observance; the two cannot travel in a car or use other transportation on the Jewish holy day.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
• Traditionally this slaughter is known as the massacre of the Holy Innocents, still a holy day in many Christian calendars.
  — Time, 6 Jan. 2023
• The holy day commemorates the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son, Ismail, per Allah's order.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 8 July 2022
• The holy day recognizes when Jesus Christ was crucified and died on the cross at Calvary as the ultimate sacrifice for people's sins, according to christianity.com.
  — Jason Rossi, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2024
• Even Godse’s birthday, May 19, is celebrated by groups such as the right-wing political party Hindu Mahasabha as a kind of holy day.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 2 June 2022
• The website explains the holy day marks Jesus' victory over sin and death, as well as points ahead to a future resurrection for anyone who is united to Jesus by their faith (Romans 6:5).
  — Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2024
• Eastern Orthodox Christians will celebrate the holy day on Sunday May 5.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2024
• Rosh Hashana marks the start of a crush of upcoming holy days, including Yom Kippur, the Jewish calendar’s most important occasion.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• The missile tore through the main square just before noon, as people were leaving church after celebrating a holy day, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• On Monday, there will be no formal negotiations because of the Iranian holy day of Ashura.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
• Israeli television channels and newspapers have been filled in recent days with commemorations of that attack, the Yom Kippur War, so named for the holy day on which the 1973 conflict began.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• The Jewish holy day began last night at sundown and is considered the most important and sacred of Jewish religious holidays.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
• Government employees would work a half-day on Friday, the traditional Muslim holy day, and then take Saturday and Sunday off, the announcement said.
  — Isabel Debre, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
• The temple has gradually reopened and now hosts Sunday sermons as well as modest celebrations for Buddhist holy days, Thaithae said.
  — Alisa Tang, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• The department’s holy day calendar does not include the solar eclipse, inmates practicing Islam and Santeria were told.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
• Ash Wednesday, a Christian holy day when worshippers are marked with ashes to symbolize death and repentance, was the next logical choice for the presentation, Gadberry said.
  — Zachary Hansen, ajc, 18 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024