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• I'm not usually a cherub person, he said donnishly, but the carvings are spectacular.2007 November 11, Alex Williams, “Odd Man In”, in New York Times. From the entry donnishly
• However wolverine-like an unnapped child, he's a cherub compared to one roused from a short sleep.2006, C. R. Yeager, Breakfast at Noon: Backwards in the "Burbs", page 52. From the entry unnapped
• It was a stone cherub pouring water from an urn, the sign of Aquarius, the Water Bearer!1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 146. From the entry Water Bearer
• But he is no cherub in real-life.2015 February 5, Julian Robinson, “'Angelic' looking teen who terrorised his village”, in Daily Mail, UK, retrieved 13 Jul 2015. From the entry butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
• He was really beautiful, like a dark-haired cherub.2002, Marian Keyes, Rachel's Holiday. From the entry trancey
• Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 135. From the entry parget
• The Lord has allowed me to see a striking similarity between this heavenly anointed cherub and this earthly anointed cherub (messenger) of God.2010, Patricia Ann Sunday, Jimmy Swaggart: the Anointed Cherub That Covereth, page 1. From the entry earthly
• In both a cherub smiles at gurgitating, lion-headed fountains, their basins bright with chattering water, repetitious questions; one region consonantal, obdurate, the other vowelled.2010 March 16, Derek Walcott, White Egrets: Poems, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry gurgitate
• In the clearing, no more than ten feet away, stood a little stone cherub atop a fancy grave marker maybe three feet high.2009, Derryl Murphy, William Shunn, Cast a Cold Eye. From the entry whim-wham
• Thomas short, round and tubby with the look of a naughty cherub, Campbell tall, saturnic and inclined to look gloomy under his wide fawn sombrero.1965, Time & Tide, volume 46, page 21. From the entry saturnic
• He stared at but did not see the bleared reflection of the flanking cherubs a hundred feet above the steel-grey veneer of water.1946, Mervyn Peake, “Here and There”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. From the entry blear
• Nonidolatrous statues of certain creatures, such as the cherubim, were clearly not considered violations of this commandment and were used both in the wilderness Tabernacle and in Solomon's temple.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1010. From the entry nonidolatrous
• Once-imagined islands, extinct peoples and lost cities from the New World to Chinese Tartary reappear in vividly colored engravings, embellished with trumpeting cherubs and snorting sea monsters.1983 April 10, R.V. Denenberg, “THE PAST SEEN IN A WORLD OF MAPS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24…. From the entry Chinese Tartary

Meaning of cherub

1. noun A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
2. noun A winged angel, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim.
3. noun In later texts changed to a winged baby; in artistic depictions sometimes a baby's head with wings but no body.

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How do you use cherub in a sentence?

Cherub is used as a noun. For example: “But then a cherub came to rescue me – it must have been that cherub in stone that Papa promised to carve for me.”

What is a short sentence with cherub?

“But he is no cherub in real-life.”

What does cherub mean?

Cherub means a winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.