Calvary

[ US /ˈkæɫvɝi/ ]
[ UK /kˈælvəɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified
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How To Use Calvary In A Sentence

  • Into one wherein we went this morning was what they called a Calvary: a horrible, ghastly image of a Christ in a tomb, the figure of the natural size, and of the livid color of death; gaping red wounds on the body and round the brows: the whole piece enough to turn one sick, and fit only to brutalize the beholder of it. Little Travels and Roadside Sketches
  • DeMint, you guys had your chance at a compromise, now the calvary is here. DeMint blasts Obama's 'false promises'
  • The words of institution effected a transubstantiation by which the bread and wine were converted into the very body and blood of Christ broken and spilled on the cross on Calvary.
  • It is a city of hills, far more famous than those of Rome: for all Europe has heard of Sion and of Calvary, while the Arab and the Assyrian, and the tribes and nations beyond, are as ignorant of the Capitolian and Aventine Mounts as they are of the Malvern or the Tancred Or, The New Crusade
  • Similarly, Calvary was the final throw in Satan's power-bid for world dominion.
  • The name Calvary or Golgotha probably indicates that the spot was a skull-like knoll; but there is no reason to think that it was a hill of the size supposed by designating it The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion
  • Many of the early comers had their own small tents and pitched them up on Calvary Hill.
  • The Parish Council wish to thank Mr William Rothwell, Ryland for making parish facilities available for the recent Visitation of Graves in Calvary Cemetery.
  • 'Cause Ah work in a cemetery, Ca... Calvary Cemetery, and to walk home... Ah go thru White Road. GWENDOLEN
  • Had they but known it, it might all have been seen, holy of holies, head-wagging priest, idle yawning assistant, with legs stretched out, half asleep, mumblement, jumblement and all, from a little back window in a passage opening from that Calvary gallery upstairs. The Bertrams
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