in the biblical sense
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see biblical, sense.
prep_phrase
Alternative letter-case form of in the biblical sense.
Example Sentences
- "I was married to you the moment I took you as my wife. That first night I pushed you backward on your bed and took you in the Biblical sense, from that moment on, we were man and wife."
- "Unidentified Man 2: How you doing? I've got a question for Pamela. How many rock stars have you met in your whole life? Ms-DES-BARRES: Oh, my gosh. Man 2: Any idea? Any idea or... Ms-LEE: He didn't ask how many you slept with. Ms-DES-BARRES: That's good. RIVERA: You mean met in the biblical sense? Man 2: I mean met and been with. Ms-DES-BARRES: I didn't sleep with that many of them."
- "The young witches made their relationship official — in the Biblical sense — and Welch’s howling entreaty, “I’d do anything to make you stay,” expressed their yearning and desperation."
- "Well, I'm no longer seeing him in the biblical sense, but I do run him from time to time."
- "Hopefully I have learned something out of all my years of screwing around with bands (in the Biblical sense, that is), so can offer some words of wisdom to Sue Sullivan, who wrote the letter in MRR #34 regarding the sexual demands of touring hardcore musicians."
- "For the whole of Ian’s life till I turned up, the ‘official’ date that our father and mother first met – in the Biblical sense – must have been given as or assumed to be, at the very earliest, some time after Ernest was killed, 1944. But in fact our parents had met and conceived me in early 1942, while Ernest was risking his life for king and country. But why had my father reacted in such a defensive manner over a matter of dates?"