shibbolethin a sentence
- Her clothes were a kind of shibboleth to me; they signaled that she was not a gentile, and for a few hours I felt less alone.† (source)
- But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.† (source)
- He was gone; I did not even know that either since there is a metabolism of the spirit as well as of the entrails, in which the stored accumulations of longtime burn, generate, create and break some maidenhead of the ravening meat; ay, in a second's time,—yes, lost all the shibboleth erupting of cannot, will not, never will in one red instant's fierce obliteration.† (source)
- A formula, a shibboleth meaningless as a child's game, performed by someone created by the situation whose need it answered: a crone mumbling in a dungeon lighted by a handful of burning hair, something in a tongue which not even the girls themselves understand anymore, maybe not even the crone herself, rooted in nothing of economics for her or for any possible progeny since the very fact that we acquiesced, suffered the farce, was her proof and assurance of that which the ceremony…† (source)
- That was the shibboleth—the cry by which she sounded the closed depths of her love and called to the stricken life of a woman's insatiate vanity.† (source)
- Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire.† (source)
- As her brain clouded over, as the memory of the views grew dim and the words of the book died away, she returned to her old shibboleth of nerves.† (source)