How to Use promised land in a Sentence

promised land

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  • But the Bears are one win away from a promised land that has remained out of reach.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2021
  • On the other side is the promised land of baby-smooth, ageless skin.
    — Rachel Burchfield, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2021
  • The New York Subliners are whole again, and Eubanks wants to lead a young squad to the promised land.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2021
  • There are enough back who have the taste of not getting there, to Omaha, the promised land.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2022
  • Only one sequence of left and right turns will lead them to the promised land across the Channel.
    — Arno Pedram, ajc, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The Sunsets made their way back to the promised land by winning the title in four games in the best of five series.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Reaching the promised land While the Dodgers are all about their offense, the Rays are all about their group of pitchers.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Back to the camps, where the player plots the precise blend of kindness and cruelty that will lead them to the promised land.
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • At one end, the 46-game grind can open the door to the promised land of the Premier League, with the nine-figure cash rewards just for showing up.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 16 May 2021
  • Even Moses never reached the promised land; his blessing was having the vision to see it.
    — Matt Thompson, The Atlantic, 7 June 2020
  • Coach Bob Bailey is counting on a trio of runners to lead his team back to the promise land.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Glendale News-Press, 2 Sep. 2017
  • If the Spurs are to rediscover the promised land of the NBA playoffs, a child (or children) shall lead them there.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 19 Dec. 2020
  • God had chosen her to lead other migrants through the desert and into the promised land: the United States.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2020
  • The Padres banked on a whole lot of Sunshine during their return to baseball’s promised land.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
  • To win a Super Bowl, the defense must play an integral role in getting to the promised land.
    — Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Bhushan Powar Design wants to take you to the promised land with its newest megayacht concept.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 May 2022
  • If we are lost in the promised land, perhaps it’s because the ground has never quite seemed solid beneath our feet.
    — Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The song and video pay homage to my grandfather and the working class and the struggle, but this song really is about thinking my promised land was a place.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Johnson then evoked the Book of Exodus, promising that soon Black people would find a Moses to lead them into a promised land.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The sitcom was the promised land anyway for any kind of working comedian.
    — Jason Sheeler, PEOPLE.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The treaty promised land in Colorado, but it was never delivered, says Begaye.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • But his mind also drifted, and how couldn’t it with his path to the promised land including more dramatic turns than straight lines.
    — Jay Paris, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Mora’s sophomore feature follows five young men growing up on the streets of Medellín who set off on a journey in search of the promised land.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2022
  • However, through bad luck, injuries and facing better teams, he's never reached the promised land of the Finals.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 6 July 2021
  • And some teams are much more realistically one or two moves away from the promised land than others.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 July 2021
  • Like a computer-graphics Moses, Smith helped deliver Pixar within sight of the promised land.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The Israelites were ultimately freed from slavery and wandered the desert for 40 years before making it to the promise land.
    — Sarah Gray, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
  • After his sentence ended, Erik the Red sailed back to Iceland to convince other settlers to follow him to this new promised land.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Smart is trying to ride the old Alabama blueprint -- great defense, strong run game, QB manager -- to the promised land, but that might not work anymore.
    — John Talty | Jtalty@al.com, al, 8 Nov. 2020
  • In the digital world, customers are providers’ North Star, and an end-to end outstanding customer experience is the promised land.
    — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021

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