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

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

He learns that they need money to stage their production, and he gets an angelically diabolical idea—he offers them the money, with a condition.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2016

But let’s also not have the reflex of pretending cops are angelically pure of what was born into the rest of us.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2016

She puckered her brow thoughtfully, and her face in spite of the paint on it struck me as a lovely one, saucy no longer but almost angelically kind.

From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir