Example Sentences

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That’s never going to be easy to encapsulate, even when the heroine is half-divine, the daughter of a god and an Amazon queen.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2017

Henderson’s totemic character is Polyphemus, the half-divine Cyclops whose appearance in Homer’s “Odyssey” is one of the poem’s most harrowing episodes.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2015

The two histories—the prehistory of humanity and the history of the culminating phase of non-human mammalian life—were interwoven during the dim ages when man was slowly groping upward from the bestial to the half-divine.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore

Helen escapes, being half-divine; but they catch Hermione, who, as a matter of fact, has always been kind to them.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert

The stranger came nearer; there was something half-diabolical, half-divine in the smile that he gave Helene.

From A Woman of Thirty by Balzac, Honoré de