Example Sentences

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The original windows, complete with Confederate battle flags, had depicted Lee and Jackson as saintlike figures, with Lee bathed in rays of heavenly light and Jackson welcomed by trumpets into paradise after his death.

From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2023

Nick Cave’s fans arrived carrying gifts — flowers, handwritten letters, even a portrait of the artist himself set in stained glass, stoic and saintlike.

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2019

Looks like his saintlike patience with the mistaken mentions is finally paying off this season, even if his personal productivity has really taken a hit.

From Time • Nov. 15, 2016

One of the most controversial and influential women in the Western world, to her supporters she was a saintlike defender of the poor; to her detractors, an irresponsible spender out for personal glory.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

As for Madge, had I beheld a corona hovering over her head I should have thought it in all respects a natural and appropriate phenomenon—so fair and saintlike did she appear to me.

From Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Major, Charles