Sample sentences for JERUSALEM

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Definition

capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel; a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims

Palestinians demanded that Israel halt construction in East Jerusalem.

Jerusalem = capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel; a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims

He insists that Arabs and Israelis can find a way to get along in Jerusalem.
They told me they had come from Nazareth and was on their way to Jerusalem.
August Wilson -- The Piano Lesson

Jerusalem = capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel; a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims

MIRACLE He was on His way from Bethany to Jerusalem, Languishing under the sadness of premonitions.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
To Lucas, the religious zealot, the co-operative commonwealth was the New Jerusalem, the kingdom of Heaven, which is "within you."
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Yeah, map o' Jerusalem, all right.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Of the sixteen thousand Aryans remembered in Yad Vashem, the central Jewish place of remembrance in Jerusalem, one-third were Polish.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
He asked to be buried in Jerusalem.
Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
Foods like fennel, Jerusalem artichokes, golden polenta, and Comte cheese became not only new words in our vocabulary but staples in our diet.
Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
] [Footnote 241: Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish theosophist, founder of the New Jerusalem Church.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
They longed for a Jerusalem to deliver.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
As a youth he had accompanied embassies to Versailles and Rome; he had fought in the wars in Austria; he had been in Jerusalem.
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
"Of course he may have been meeting a girl," they said, and "No, I think he was waiting for his old roommate, Sir Jerusalem Doak."
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
As instructed, Deo read Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
We could go to Paris and to Rome or to Jerusalem.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
The Lord is rebuilding Jerusalem; he gathers in the scattered sons of Israel.
Lois Lowry -- Number the Stars
For in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem shall be Salvation.
Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
Hebron had a single farcaster terminex in New Jerusalem and allowed portals nowhere else.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
An' the place was that neglected that yer might 'ave smelled ole Jerusalem in it.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
Great Jerusalem, they keep turnin' up every ten minutes or so!
Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage

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