Used in a Sentence

grail

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for grail.

Editorial note

Being pro-American (whatever that means) is not the holy grail or something like that.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

The Holy Grail.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of grail gathered in one view.

noun

The Holy Grail.

noun

Something eagerly sought or quested for.

noun

A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for grail.

noun

A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.

Example sentences

1

Being pro-American (whatever that means) is not the holy grail or something like that.

2

But this doesn't mean that I consider Go to be some kind of perfect holy grail of programming, either.

3

RobotJS + chrome drivers (and therefore CSS selectors for mouse/keyboard actions) would be the holy grail for integrations testing.

4

The holy grail might be lip syncing, and is getting better but nobody has an easy solution for that yet.

5

Finding those holy grail will make them multibillonaries in two months so is not a problem of lack of motivation.

6

I don't think the log periodic theory is a holy grail to making money in the market.

7

A Postgres to MySQL client mapping middleware is probably the holy grail?

8

When my boy was five we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail together...many times since I bought the DVD.

9

The holy grail of success isn't working hard, vision, or values.

10

Seems like this is the holy grail of SaaS - a simple service, barebones design, something that just works out of the box, happy customers.

11

It's like the holy grail of write once, run everywhere.

12

Funny how in business, that's terrible (it's literally the worst it could possibly be to have a potentially profitable business), but with algorithms, it's the holy grail.

Quote examples

1

They achieved the marketing Holy Grail of reaching the Verb Status ("Let me MapQuest it") only to lose it.

2

Any other AOL "hax0rs" from back in the day, remember a rainman account was the holy grail?

3

But those who have done big enterprise use phrases like "holy grail".

4

One of the reasons I've seen a lot of people move from OCaml to Haskell is the "holy grail of multi core domination".

Proper noun examples

1

Witness the demise of Shake and Silicon Grail, both top notch compositing packages for Irix, Windows and Linux.

2

The remaining Holy Grail, quantum gravity, suffers no lack of proposed solutions; what it really does suffer from is a lack of ways to test any of them.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use grail in a sentence?

Being pro-American (whatever that means) is not the holy grail or something like that.

What does grail mean?

The Holy Grail.

What part of speech is grail?

grail is commonly used as noun.