Examples of sacred cow in a Sentence
The old government program has become a sacred cow.
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Effectively, the rule appears to spell the end of exclusively single-family zoning — long a sacred cow in suburban Miami and the rest of the country — across unincorporated Miami-Dade.
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Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
Those cuts would even hit defense spending, long a sacred cow to Republicans.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
Khan’s ideas have challenged the closest thing to a sacred cow in antitrust law.
—Brian Fung, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
Others saw a businessman accustomed to getting his way who hitched his cart to a sacred cow – the nation’s veterans.
—David Sharp, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
In true comedy club fashion, no sacred cows were spared by those who took the mic.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
Bambi is something of a sacred cow.
—Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2020
It’s all served on a sizzling hot platter in the shape of Nandi, a Hindu sacred cow.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 29 Apr. 2022
Some readers are by now gasping at the hypocrisy of their hippy punching, sacred cow busting blogger, he who lambasts the nature-worhshipping, organic-loving, GMO-fearing denizens of the world.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2013
Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
Those cuts would even hit defense spending, long a sacred cow to Republicans.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
Khan’s ideas have challenged the closest thing to a sacred cow in antitrust law.
—Brian Fung, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
Others saw a businessman accustomed to getting his way who hitched his cart to a sacred cow – the nation’s veterans.
—David Sharp, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
In true comedy club fashion, no sacred cows were spared by those who took the mic.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
Bambi is something of a sacred cow.
—Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2020
It’s all served on a sizzling hot platter in the shape of Nandi, a Hindu sacred cow.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 29 Apr. 2022
Some readers are by now gasping at the hypocrisy of their hippy punching, sacred cow busting blogger, he who lambasts the nature-worhshipping, organic-loving, GMO-fearing denizens of the world.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2013
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