Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use marvel in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Marvel means that which causes wonder; a prodigy; a portent. Example: “They marveled at how the Shrinky Dinks could be so shrinky while preserving their form so beautifully.”

Examples of marvel by meaning

nounThat which causes wonder; a prodigy; a portent.

  • On a sheer technical level, the movie is a marvel.2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club

verbTo become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.

  • If Cleopatra or Elizabeth I were to time-travel to the present day, they would marvel at a world we take for granted, with its vaccines and antibiotics, and a flushing toilet and fridge in every home.2021 June 25, Richard Fisher, “Generational amnesia: The memory loss that harms the planet”, in BBC News

More sentences with marvel

  • They marveled at how the Shrinky Dinks could be so shrinky while preserving their form so beautifully.From the entry shrinky
  • Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.From the entry thrust
  • The engineer marvelled at his construction.From the entry construction
  • Finn loved this kid and marveled at how quickly she calmed down.2023, H. S. Torben, Flying Fluke, unnumbered page. From the entry cobra chicken
  • Yes, he had done marvels; and fate was astoundingly kind to him also.2022 May 25, Arnold Bennett, The Complete Clayhanger Family Novels: Clayhanger + Hilda Lessways + These Twain + The Roll Call, DigiCat. From the entry souvenance
  • Podcasts?” marvels Miranda at some of Carrie’s latest endeavors, as if these were edgy new enterprises.2022 January 5, Rhonda Garelick, “Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Rip Van Winkle
  • “I have traveled across continents to come to the jungle to do psychedelics,” marveled Mr.2020 August 30, Ernesto Londoño, quoting Rudy Gonsior, “‘A Hail Mary’: Psychedelic Therapy Draws Veterans to Jungle Retreats”, in The New…. From the entry Hail Mary
  • Ally marveled over the month that had passed since marrying herself.2017, Kylie Gilmore, Mess With Me: Happy Endings Book Club Series, Book 6, Extra Fancy Books, →ISBN. From the entry sologamy
  • While still marveling over the magnificent overtime victory his team had over St.1999, “College Basketball: Men's Roundup; Jarvis Keeps His Focus on Tough Road Ahead”, in New York Times. From the entry little old
  • I marvel how Leigh managed to give my name to the manager.1994, Grif Stockley, Religious Conviction (Ivy Books Fiction), New York, N.Y.: Ivy Books, →ISBN, page 266. From the entry blotto
  • He marvelled anew that Ruth could have cared, as she certainly had, for this fellow.1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train. From the entry bounder
  • "You're a marvel, that's wot you are," ses the 'tec, shaking his 'ead.1909, W.W. Jacobs, Self-Help. From the entry 'tec
  • I often marvel that the women did not turn his head.1904, Harold MacGrath, chapter 2, in The Man On The Box. From the entry turn someone's head
  • That person was a woman well over eighty, but a marvel of vitality and unextinct youth.1902, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Luella Miller. From the entry Luella
  • There was Evans, and that marvel among actors, Wish, who is also a modest man.1902, H. G. Wells, The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost. From the entry wish
  • The day was bluebird, and we marveled once again at the wonder of having this playground to ourselves.2025, Chris Wright, “Stjerntinden, Northeast Face”, in American Alpine Club, retrieved 14 Nov 2025. From the entry bluebird
  • Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues.2023 May 5, Declan Walsh, “‘Only Word for Them Is Heroes’: How 2 Students Rescued Dozens in Sudan”, in The New York Times. From the entry rescue
  • She marvelled at how lucrative kids-as-content seemed to be.2019, Sophie White, Filter This, unnumbered page. From the entry Instamum
  • An elephant's trunk was a marvel of elastofluidic engineering – a tool both supple and strong, sensitive and expressive.2015, Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake, →ISBN. From the entry elastofluidic
  • She was, in Julia's words, “a marvel of cookery, workery, good humor, and everyone warms to her and loves her.”2012, Noel Riley Fitch, Appetite for Life. From the entry workery
  • Thus they marvelled at the pukkaness of the big city.2006, Brian Paul Bach, Calcutta's Edifice: The Buildings of a Great CIty, Rupa & Co., →ISBN, page 22. From the entry pukkaness
  • He also marvels at a hoard of holy relics, begrieving the lack of care shown by their new keepers.1989, Sven-Olof Lindquist, Birgitta Radhe, Economy and Culture in the Baltic, 1650-1700. From the entry begrieve
  • Marveling, I said to her ear—and the pleasure I took in touching it with my talking lips!—“How do you know?1969 March [1956], Herbert Gold, The Man Who Was Not With It, New York, NY: Avon Books, page 181. From the entry virgie
  • Otherwise, I liked the paper immensely, and if you really enjoy reading James I merely marvel without exhortation.1962, James Branch Cabell, Padraic Colum, Margaret Freeman Cabell, Between friends: letters of James Branch Cabell and others. From the entry beflood
  • I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nevertheless made a painstaking record of its every tremor.1961, Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem. From the entry on the outs
  • A marvel of wisdom is hidden in his heart.1919, The Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly, volume 4, page 166. From the entry glee-beam
  • It seemed to him this must needs be a marvel.1910, H. G. Wells, The History of Mr. Polly. From the entry must needs
  • Marvel Rivals’ upcoming Strategist, Invisible Woman, could be set to bring back this one infamous strat from Overwatch thanks to her powerful kit.2025 January 7, Michelle Cornelia, “Marvel Rivals players convinced Invisible Woman will enable classic Overwatch strat”, in Dexerto. From the entry strat
  • “All these fantastic birds, long hair, made up, false eyelashes and things, crowding round this group of scabby, spotty teenagers,” marveled Anderson.2017, David Weigel, The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock, W. W. Norton & Company. From the entry bird
  • From the corner of his eye, he saw Ursula under the super troupers, fixing a stray lock of hair and eying him with marvel.2017, Gerald Hansen, Derry Women Series Box Set. From the entry super trouper
  • As it had been for other Western reporters getting their first look behind the Bamboo Curtain, it was all a marvel for Payne.2015, James McGrath Morris, Eye on the Struggle, Amistad, →ISBN, page 321. From the entry bamboo curtain
  • When a mold is full, a slagger moves in with his tool, a technological marvel othereise known as a board slightly larger than a two-by-four.2009, John Hoerr, Monongahela Dusk, page 255. From the entry slagger
  • He marveled that the Waterway could temporarily unite two distinct species, powerboaters and sailboaters, who have historically avoided each other like the plague.2007 May 18, C. J. Hughes, “Not Just Any Port for Migrating Snowbirds”, in New York Times. From the entry powerboater
  • With tissue I softened my rouge, slightened my lipstick; studying my redesigns in my green compact's mirror I marveled, seeing yet another strange face.2007, Jack Womack, Elvissey. From the entry slighten
  • Lee Lan can see the lights from as far away as her home at Shau Kei Wan, and she never ceases to marvel at them.1962 [1961], Ralph Herrmanns, translated by Annabelle MacMillan, Lee Lan Flies the Dragon Kite, 1st American edition, New York: Harcourt…. From the entry Shau Kei Wan
  • Picasso, among his superb illustrations to Buffon’s ‘Natural History’ has just such a baboon that is a marvel of exact observation and of insight.1950, Alan Houghton Brodrick, Pillars of Hercules: The Iberian Scene, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, page 46. From the entry babooness
  • They would have seen as he saw, the tremendosity, the marvel, the hugeness of the Big Bang, rolling and echoing through all England.1931, The Week-end Review, volume 4, page 576, column 1. From the entry tremendosity
  • The gentlemanly gorilla and his ladylike gorillesses will do feats of health and strength that will be the marvel of the city.1916 October 29, “‘I’ll Drag 100 Girls with Up-Hill Pull,’ Says Gorilla […]”, in The Houston Chronicle, volume 16, number 16, Houston…. From the entry gorilless

Meaning of marvel

  1. noun That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a portent.
  2. noun Wonder, astonishment.
  3. verb To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.

Full definition of marvel

Questions about marvel in a sentence

How do you use marvel in a sentence?
Marvel is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They marveled at how the Shrinky Dinks could be so shrinky while preserving their form so beautifully.”
What is a short sentence with marvel?
“The engineer marvelled at his construction.”
What does marvel mean?
Marvel means that which causes wonder; a prodigy; a portent.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: marvel (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use marvel in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/marvel. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.