Example Sentences

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For fall, diaphanous tiers of 1970s flounce in almost angelically light hues defined the show’s aesthetic inside a brutalist warehouse space.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

The string trio Time for Three rises from the pit on a platform to sing angelically and play with punk ferocity.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2023

In another galaxy, a pop band composed entirely of blue people with angelically blond hair is hunted down by alien forces and abducted from its home planet.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2021

Cue the gospel-like “ooh” chorus from her back-up singers; they’re posed angelically behind her on fluffy, white cloud set pieces.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2019

They were seldom pretty either in face or figure; they seemed all to have some stage of goitre; but their manners were charming, and their voices, as I have said, angelically sweet.

From A Little Swiss Sojourn by Howells, William Dean