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.
• What in the unholy gas station tshirt hell is this?!@MattScalici gives this shirt 4 and a half stars.
  — Mark Heim, AL.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• And then there’s the unholy alliance of toilet seats and food.
  — Nora Taylor, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2024
• Played bridge until lights out with the unholy three & was high.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
• The Greek myths alone — the Minotaur, who was the child of an unholy union between a woman and a bull.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• Then, there were the male rompers, and with them, some unholy takes on the male summer statement short.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 21 June 2017
• To think what my third-grade self would’ve done if faced with that unholy terror.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• The infant’s eyes appeared to be glowing in the night as if lit with an unholy fire.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 15 Nov. 2019
• Stage sets for their live shows are designed like an unholy church.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2022
• As the hours ticked down to prime time, the White House prepared its unholy production.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 2 June 2020
• Stranger Things actress Sadie Sink as the main girl facing the unholy threats of Shadyside.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• Brunch is a breeding ground for hybrids both holy and unholy.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2023
• But the union between dresses and jeans, as unholy as some might perceive it, is here to stay.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
• This is an unholy view, like a widescreen television on its side.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 3 May 2018
• Finally, an unholy army of the night that doesn’t need overtime and won’t try to (gasp) unionize!
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• There’s an unholy gnarliness to Ripley that Scott sells well.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 22 May 2024
• The first cracks in this unholy alliance appeared as early as 1938.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 29 June 2020
• Kim Petras would do unholy things to work with Madonna.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2023
• The very act felt wrong, and the resulting sandwich tasted even more unholy.
  — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
• Had the unholy task of following Josh Allen in all drills and he's competed.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Poe is the unholy fount for much of the horror fiction Flanagan’s adapted in this series so far.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
• There’s still time to salvage the situation and clean up this unholy mess.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2021
• But the megachurch pastor also happens to be embroiled in this unholy mess.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
• At a time when the world is an unholy mess, even asking basic questions about the purpose of business has some virtue.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2019
• The real question may be this: what will this unholy trinity do with all that free will?
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 20 Apr. 2018
• A week before Christmas, Britain found itself in an unholy mess.
  — Hasit Shah, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2020
• Because that performance was something unholy — and not in a good way.
  — Vulture, 6 Feb. 2023
• 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
• It is often described as an unholy blend of horror and fantasy.
  — Marianne Gordon, Peoplemag, 19 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024