Example Sentences

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As Wenger wrote in 1990: "Akangbe, bodily and spiritually voluminous, creates works of an ethereal, sublimely weightless loftiness. His work is a primary eruption of genius."

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

For me the most sublimely comforting of these domestic vistas is Victoria Wolff’s cult Instagram account, ouramagansetthouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Lincoln’s secretary, John Hay, described Clay on a visit to the White House, wearing “with a sublimely unconscious air, three pistols and an Arkansas toothpick”—his Bowie knife.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Plus, Reeves makes eating a burger for the first time a sublimely funny reaffirmation that sometimes, indeed, it is a wonderful life.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

It bloomed best, most sublimely, in the middle of an emotional flareup of just this kind.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger