CHALICE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for CHALICE, such as:

1. The chalice flowing to the brim.
2. Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.
3. There he lay, solemn and copious, vested as for the altar, his large hands loosely retaining a chalice.
4. A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers.
5. In a small room adjoining the cathedral, visitors can see this ornately decorated chalice made by famous European goldsmith.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHALICE
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chalice
 n.  goblet; bowl-shaped drinking vessel; large drinking cup, often having stem and base
Classic Sentence:
1  The chalice flowing to the brim.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  There he lay, solemn and copious, vested as for the altar, his large hands loosely retaining a chalice.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
3  These noises converged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In ARABY
4  A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  In a small room adjoining the cathedral, visitors can see this ornately decorated chalice made by famous European goldsmith.
2  Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.