Grail is an English word with synonyms like aim or object. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Grail meaning
- The Holy Grail.
- Something eagerly sought or quested for.
Using Grail
- The main meaning on this page is: The Holy Grail. | Something eagerly sought or quested for.
- Useful related words include: aim, object, objective, target.
- In the example corpus, grail often appears in combinations such as: holy grail, the grail, grail of.
Context around Grail
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 14 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Grail
- In this selection, "grail" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, holy, wrong, true, king, knight and uses stand out and add context to how "grail" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include for the grail, as a grail un graal and holy grail. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "grail" sits close to words such as aberdeenshire, abound and arteries, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with grail
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
If late night is Deb’s holy grail, what’s Paul’s holy grail? (14 words)
Some versions of the Grail myth emphasize how the Grail creates food and goods. (14 words)
The Grail Knight battles Indiana on horseback, while Vogel is crushed by a boulder when stealing the Grail. (18 words)
The Black Beast of Argh appears towards the end of Monty Python and the Holy Grail after King Arthur () and his Knights of the Round Table reach the Cave of Caerbannog, which is one of the many trials they must overcome to find the Holy Grail. (46 words)
Grace's fame has endured and his large beard in particular remains familiar; for example, Monty Python and the Holy Grail uses his image as "the face of God" during the sequence in which God sends the knights out on their quest for the grail. (45 words)
And now I think I know why: "Growth," the Holy Grail, is not about the growing, not about a bigger And this kind of growth has finally made us all economically obsolete because of grew: the minimum scale at which an enterprise remains viable. (44 words)
If late night is Deb’s holy grail, what’s Paul’s holy grail? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Black Beast of Argh appears towards the end of Monty Python and the Holy Grail after King Arthur () and his Knights of the Round Table reach the Cave of Caerbannog, which is one of the many trials they must overcome to find the Holy Grail.
If late night is Deb’s holy grail, what’s Paul’s holy grail?
Born from Canyon’s long-standing gravel favorite, the Grail, the Grail:ON makes more changes than just slapping a motor and battery on and calling it good.
Lady Blackwood is a mentor, thought leader and author of Flames of Love: Truth of the Holy Grail, a true story based on her spiritual quest to find King Arthur’s legendary Holy Grail.
Chrétien refers to this object not as "The Grail" but as "a grail" (un graal), showing the word was used, in its earliest literary context, as a common noun.
Elsa shoots Henry, then dies drinking from the wrong Grail, and Indiana rescues his father from falling into the chasm while grasping for the Grail.
Grace's fame has endured and his large beard in particular remains familiar; for example, Monty Python and the Holy Grail uses his image as "the face of God" during the sequence in which God sends the knights out on their quest for the grail.
Gurnemanz knows that the Grail draws only the pious to Monsalvat and invites the boy to observe the Grail rite.
He has been kept alive for seven hundred years by the power of the Grail, which is hidden among dozens of false Grails; only the true Grail brings life, while a false one claims it.
In Wolfram von Eschenbach's telling, the Grail was kept safe at the castle of Munsalvaesche (mons salvationis), entrusted to Titurel, the first Grail King.
Klingsor then set himself up in opposition to the realm of the Grail, learning dark arts, claiming the valley domain below and filling it with beautiful Flowermaidens to seduce and enthrall wayward Grail Knights.
Some versions of the Grail myth emphasize how the Grail creates food and goods.
The Grail Knight battles Indiana on horseback, while Vogel is crushed by a boulder when stealing the Grail.
The Grail Knight Lohengrin, son of the Grail King Parzival, is sent to the duchess of Brabant to defend her.
The rules of the Holy Grail determine that Knights of the Grail must remain anonymous, retiring from all human sight if their identity is revealed; so the time for his return has come.
A fan theory explains the heavily criticized "nuke the fridge" scene, which explains that since Indy drank from the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, he's technically invincible.
And now I think I know why: "Growth," the Holy Grail, is not about the growing, not about a bigger And this kind of growth has finally made us all economically obsolete because of grew: the minimum scale at which an enterprise remains viable.
As the company has previously stated, if it was not successful with either its European Court of Justice jurisdictional appeal or in a final decision of the Fifth Circuit, it would divest GRAIL.
At the time it was known as the Paramount Theater, which was where "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was running with Chase waiting to enter and take his seat.
Even though picklers haven’t secured their holy grail of a dedicated coastal facility, Boyland said their radical strategies are why they have any new pickleball courts at all.
Phrases with grail
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with grail
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- holy grail 125×
- the grail 55×
- grail of 34×
- grail and 12×
- grail for 12×
- grail was 7×
- grail in 3×
- grail is 3×
- grail war 3×
- grail at 3×