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How to use immaculate in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective

Immaculate means having no blemish or stain; absolutely clean and tidy. Example: “I didn't think the cat had gotten out, but either she did or those kittens are a case of immaculate conception.”

More sentences with immaculate

  • I didn't think the cat had gotten out, but either she did or those kittens are a case of immaculate conception.From the entry Immaculate Conception
  • His clothes were sombre, clean but not immaculate, pressed, but yesterday perhaps not today.2002, Julian Rathbone, A Very English Agent, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry dandyish
  • Someone jolted my arm and the contents of my glass spilled onto an immaculate white dress.1989, Antônio Torres, Blues for a Lost Childhood: A Novel of Brazil, Columbia, La.: Readers International, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry obnoxious
  • Their hair was sleek, of a slightly other period, immaculate page boys and French twists.1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 53. From the entry pageboy
  • Untouched by the decaying middens in which they live, they emerge into the sunshine immaculate and serene.1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth. From the entry midden
  • He returns immaculate in the evening with the gloss still on his hat and his boots.1901 August – 1902 April, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Problem”, in The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes…. From the entry showery
  • Sometimes that means buying the record a couple more times, because an immaculate jacket might contain a scratched LP.2021 February 23, “Record Collectors Sometimes Need a Little Shrink-Wrap”, in Phoenix New Times. From the entry ring wear
  • Much more powerful than moral enthusiasm is the disinclination of the immaculate flesh to risk the soilure of the streets.1913, Rebecca West, “Lynch Law”, in Jane Marcus, editor, The Young Rebecca, Virago, published 1982, page 207. From the entry soilure
  • While some have labeled this unusual pattern “immaculate disinflation,” CEA has argued that a likely explanation is straightforward: normalization of the economy’s supply side.2023 November 30, “Disinflation Explanation: Supply, Demand, and their Interaction”, in White House, archived from the original on 23 Jan…. From the entry immaculate disinflation
  • Subhra Guha's "rendition of the thumri is notable for its rich technique and aesthetic appeal emanating from her immaculate use of bol."1992 May 8, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry thumri
  • Eliot had his legion of followers: the immaculate minor poet armaturing in exquisite technique a mildewed softness, and living a reminiscent universe which never existed.1940, Waldo David Frank, Chart for Rough Water: Our Role in a New World, page 147. From the entry armature
  • For the immaculate gentleman her cries had lured to what was to have been his death had been suddenly metamorphosed into a demon of revenge.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 28. From the entry Hercules
  • 'Is my thatch not immaculate?' This is most obvious in west Suffolk, where the old wool-based opulence has been fortified by the wagonloads of Waitrosey weekenders.2014, Matthew Engel, Engel's England: Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man. From the entry Waitrosey
  • 'And how do you know all this?' she asked, smoothing back an immaculate curtain of iron-grey hair and securing it with a quick stab of her hair grip.2011, Ceri Radford, A Surrey State Of Affairs. From the entry hair grip
  • The main —— or cooking —— kitchen is an inhumanly immaculate expanse of burner rings and countertops where, according to tradition, the stations move clockwise from canapé to entremetier.2009 May 28, Alan Feuer, “In the Gilded World of Per Se’s Kitchen”, in The New York Times. From the entry clockwise
  • She had been out all day campaigning and looked stiffly immaculate as ever in a royal blue twinset — except for her nose, which was twitching uncontrollably in disgust.2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry twinset
  • The man switches off his leaf blower and turns to regard the mountain rising behind his yellow-sided Cape house with its split-rail fence and immaculate yard.2000 December 3, Bill Gifford, “Bunker? What Bunker?”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry sided
  • Wendell's mother unfathers him twice-over (through dislike of her first husband) by giving him her maiden name and claiming his conception was immaculate (R, 20, 46-47).1991, Mary Lynn Broe, Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes, page 88. From the entry unfather
  • He led the way through the main entrance and marched right up to the immaculate, smug, dinner-jacketed man who was leaning in front of the desk.1909 March 7, “Little Stories of Fact and Fancy: Slightly and Slightingly Mistaken”, in The New York Times, volume LVIII, number 18,670…. From the entry dinner-jacketed
  • He added that immaculate disinflation wrongly suggested that the trend was unexplainable, when “disinflation is primarily due to the fading economic fallout from the pandemic and Russian war in Ukraine”.2024 March 19, Valentina Romei, “Central bankers see ‘immaculate disinflation’ within reach”, in Financial Times, archived from the…. From the entry immaculate disinflation

Meaning of immaculate

  1. adjective Having no blemish or stain; absolutely clean and tidy.
  2. adjective Containing no mistakes; free from fault.
  3. adjective Of a book, manuscript, etc.: having no textual errors.

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Questions about immaculate in a sentence

How do you use immaculate in a sentence?
Immaculate is used as an adjective. For example: “I didn't think the cat had gotten out, but either she did or those kittens are a case of immaculate conception.”
What is a short sentence with immaculate?
“His clothes were sombre, clean but not immaculate, pressed, but yesterday perhaps not today.”
What does immaculate mean?
Immaculate means having no blemish or stain; absolutely clean and tidy.

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