How to Use the Holy Grail in a Sentence

the Holy Grail

noun

• 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
• Searching for this, however, is like searching for the Holy Grail.
  — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The musical comedy is adapted from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
• As luck would have it, the Holy Grail of football holidays is coming up in just a few week: Super Bowl 2024.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• It’s long been the Holy Grail for Silicon Valley tech titans itching for more wealth and power.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• One consequence was the Holy Grail of the conservative legal movement: the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade.
  — The Editors, National Review, 14 May 2024
• The team also covers some brief tips for dealing with aphids in greenhouses and gardens, as well as touching on the Holy Grail of gardening: tomatoes.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
• 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
• Two gene therapies were approved for sickle cell disease last week, but for many researchers the Holy Grail remains something far more modest: A pill.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
• Oh, and there’s also a quest for the Holy Grail, possible Nazis with butterfly nets, nefarious magicians and a teary make-out session with Jesus — and that’s just in the first two episodes.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Wanting our beverages to do more than just quench our thirst isn’t a new phenomenon (see also: coffee; booze; whatever people sipped from the Holy Grail).
  — Keren Landman, Vox, 12 Sep. 2024
• The sight gag recalls a famous recurring joke in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in which the knights ride fake horses while their squires hit coconuts together behind them to imitate horses’ feet.
  — Time, 21 July 2023
• There’s no more appropriate reason to put Monty Python and the Holy Grail back in theaters than the celebration of a comically off-year anniversary.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
• The opera that has furnished processional music for untold millions of weddings is an essay on the impossibility of marital trust—at least, when one member of the couple is a Knight of the Holy Grail.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Figuring out what makes people tick and whether and how to engage on those subjects could be considered the Holy Grail for communications professionals.
  — David Hessekiel, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Fans can peruse participating theaters, and purchase tickets, via the Holy Grail re-release website.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
• In cementing its dominance in streaming over the past decade, Netflix produced hit shows, signed up almost 240 million subscribers, and minted new franchises—the Holy Grail of Hollywood success.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
• But the belly of each comprises an ambrosial, parallel dimension, limitless in divine and earthly delights, and accessible only to true believers, as the Holy Grail was to Lancelot.
  — Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
• Impact, the Holy Grail, comes down to measuring how the packaging chain has changed for the better—shifted away from producing virgin plastic (or plastic at all), for example, or improved at turning plastic into a circular resource.
  — Bypeter Vanham, Fortune, 6 July 2023
• Targeting ads precisely and efficiently to individuals is the Holy Grail of advertising.
  — Paul Starr, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2019
• While this is significant in proving that using nuclear fusion as an energy source is possible, there is yet another hurdle to obtaining the Holy Grail – solving the economy of scale involved in making fusion power plants a commercial reality.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Nuclear fusion has long been considered the Holy Grail of clean energy generation—the necessary resources are virtually unlimited, and produces vastly larger amounts of energy compared to other green alternatives.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024