Example Sentences

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The pastries are ethereally flaky and buttery, the cinnamon roll strikes that difficult balance where the middle is fully baked but the edges aren’t overdone, and is slathered with heavenly cream cheese frosting.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023

Alicia is searingly brilliant at mathematics, ethereally beautiful and usually in conversation with a troupe of third-rate Vaudevillian hallucinations.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2022

Food writer Allison Robicelli uses it in her angel food cake recipe “that’s ethereally fluffy, no folding or futzing required,” she wrote.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

Small, compact, with dark hair and preternaturally bright eyes, Masha makes a bold, visible contrast with the ethereally pale Beanpole — her very being seems molded from other, stronger material.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2020

Zeitoun looked down to his wife, astonished at how ethereally beautiful she looked, her skin radiant, her eyes so tired.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers