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How to use divine in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Divine means of or pertaining to a god. Example: “The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.”

Examples of divine by meaning

adjectiveOf or pertaining to a god.

  • a divine being

adjectiveOf superhuman or surpassing excellence.

  • Divine decadence darling!1972, Jay Presson Allen, Cabaret, spoken by Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli)

verbTo guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.

  • If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 43”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
  • There she would be told to divine whether some man or woman, generally bound to the chair, was lying or not.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 122
  • I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 250c

More sentences with divine

  • The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.From the entry interior
  • To err is human; to forgive, divine.From the entry human
  • The divine truth is stronger than totalitarian falsehoods.From the entry totalitarian
  • That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration.From the entry poetry
  • To err is human, to forgive, divine.From the entry err
  • Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.From the entry invoke
  • Dressing these systems in the robes of the divine is how we ritualize our submission to them.2026 January 22, Unattributed, “The Rise of Divine Machinery”, in Etheria. From the entry divine machinery
  • Every injection, lockdown, and emergency authorization was somehow part of a divine plan.2025 April 20, Penguin X-01, “CHAPTER SCROLL 2: ORANGE MESSIAH SYNDROME”, in MAGAtards: The False Idol Patriot, PenguinsMerch. From the entry 5D chess
  • So I was gagged personally and I still am gagged, but it was quite divine intervention.2024 May 10, Justin Moran, quoting Isaac Dunbar, “Isaac Dunbar and Kerri Colby Were Built for This”, in Paper. From the entry gag
  • A post-scarcity communism that doesn't dispense with all thoughts of the divine and numinous can't be precluded.2022, China Miéville, chapter 4, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC. From the entry numinous
  • Yes, Polish crepes, or nalesniki, are divine at the Flat Dog Diner.2021 September 26, Maribeth Renne, “Flat Dog Diner has Polish specialties: Tiny Vero Beach eatery offers sandwiches, more”, in The Stuart…. From the entry nalesnik
  • Indeed, he presents the cosmos as a divine animal designed by a hyperdivine maker.2021, Andrea Nightingale, Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry hyperdivine
  • The human soul studies the divine cosmos both physically and intellectually.2021, Andrea Nightingale, Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry hyperdivine
  • For centuries, welldiggers had looked for groundwater and divined where to dig guided by instinct alone.2017, Orhan Pamuk, The Red-Haired Woman: A novel. From the entry welldigger
  • When you generously, open-heartedly bless someone who has hurt or harmed you, incredible divine alchemy takes place.2015, Diana Cooper, Tim Whild, The Archangel Guide to Ascension: 55 Steps to the Light, →ISBN. From the entry open-heartedly
  • May the divine Savitri, the well-handed, well-fingered, and well-armed, clear thee by his might!'2014, Julius Eggeling, The Satapatha Brahmana, Part III, page 64. From the entry well-handed
  • They involved no intervention of the divine in the bodies of human individuals.2013, Lyndal Roper, Oedipus and the Devil, page 178. From the entry outmiracle
  • And like a Greek priest, I sang the divine liturgy of St.2012, George D. Manjounes, Good Morning, Morning Glory. From the entry psalm
  • But true power—the divine right to rule—is something you're born with.2006 December 1, Aaron Ehasz, “The Crossroads of Destiny” (12:27 from the start), in Michael Dante DiMartino, director, Avatar: The Last…. From the entry power
  • Further, David understood that God is all-present, and he could never escape the divine presence.2006, Max Anders, Steven Lawson, Holman Old Testament Commentary - Psalms 76-150. From the entry all-present
  • It is Titanised by crime, it is made divine by the expiation of crime.2006, Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry titanise
  • In practice, they usually even went further and stated that Christ had a single, divine nature.2004, Vernon O. Egger, A History of the Muslim World to 1405: The Making of a Civilization, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry monophysitism
  • For the past few hundred years, Americans have considered chocolate more devilish than divine.[2004 December 20, Joe and Teresa Graedon, “Chocolate: How sweet, and healthy, it can be for the body”, in Evansville Courier & Press…. From the entry devil's-food cake
  • Knit and oned to God human beings are irrevocably in relationship with the divine.2003, Elizabeth MacKinlay, Mental Health and Spirituality in Later Life, page 83. From the entry one
  • God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.2003, James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, →ISBN, page 507. From the entry entail
  • John Catholic Church in Spearville, Kansas is holding four special services this week to seek divine intervention.2002 April 10, Jessica Reaves, “How Dry We Are”, in Time, retrieved 03 Aug 2016. From the entry divine intervention
  • Paul carefully safeguards the priority of divine initiative over human efforts to come into relationship with God.2002, Richard B[evan] Hays, “The God of Mercy Who Rescues Us from the Present Evil Age: Romans and Galatians”, in A. Andrew Das, Frank J.…. From the entry midsentence
  • This recipe, from someone who really knows her tiramisu, is mondo rich, utterly divine, and simple.2001, Margie Lapanja, Food Men Love: All-Time Favorite Recipes from Caesar Salad and Grilled Rib-Eye to Cinnamon Buns and Apple Pie…. From the entry mondo
  • These expressions of God's concern concretize around the figure of the divine hand or arm.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1055. From the entry concretize
  • The fools charge her with diabolical trafficking, believing her misfortune the result of divine misfavor!2001, Martin Harry Greenberg, 100 wicked witch stories, page 537. From the entry misfavor
  • Raman, there are three ganas or temperaments of nature: Deva (divine), Manushya (human), and Rakshasa (demon).1999, Dennis M. Harness, David Frawley, The Nakshatras: The Lunar Mansions of Vedic Astrology, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin: Lotus Press, →ISBN…. From the entry manushya
  • If Jesus was the divine–human word incarnate, the Bible was seen as the divine–human word inscripturate.1998 April 8, "Hermeneutics and Christ", Matthias Media, St Matthias Press Ltd.. From the entry inscripturate
  • The cross reveals the nature, extent and purpose of divine love as it encounters human sin.1991, James M. Gordon, Evangelical Spirituality, SPCK, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry crucicentric
  • As the depressive needs a psychoanalyst, so too does the Dostoyevskeian protagonist need divine pardon and forgiveness.1989, Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, page 400. From the entry Dostoyevskeian
  • The highest he calls eternity or supereternity and assigns it to the divine substance.1989, Richard C. Dales, Medieval Discussions of the Eternity of the World, Brill, →ISBN, page 193. From the entry supereternity

Meaning of divine

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a god.
  2. adjective Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
  3. adjective Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.

Full definition of divine

Questions about divine in a sentence

How do you use divine in a sentence?
Divine is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.”
What is a short sentence with divine?
“Divine decadence darling!”
What does divine mean?
Divine means of or pertaining to a god.

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