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How to use miracle in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Miracle means an event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin. Example: “Many religious beliefs are based on miracles.”

Examples of miracle by meaning

nounAn event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin.

  • Many religious beliefs are based on miracles.
  • An example of a miracle associated with Muhammad is the splitting of the moon.
  • And he’s right, it is a miracle!2018 July 1, “Gene Editing”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode 18, John Oliver (actor), via HBO

nounA fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it.

  • Secondly, it was a miracle that a document hammered out with such difficulty, satisfying very few of its authors completely and satisfying some of them very little, would turn out to be the most successful political invention in history.1966 November 25, “A Great Document Made by Wisdom and Luck”, in Life, volume 61, number 22, page 13
  • It was a miracle that I survived that ditching in the high waves because I had my seat belt and shoulder harness unbuckled in anticipation of bailing out.1993, Hatch N. Gardner, Frank H. Winter, P-51 Mustang, Turner Publishing Company, page 78

nounAn awesome and exceptional example of something.

  • miracle of engineering
  • It was a miracle of engineering that made possible, with the cheap electricity the dam generated, another kind of miracle: the bizarre, superilluminated city of Las Vegas, Nevada.2008, Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History, Cengage Learning, page 670

verbTo affect by a miracle; to work a miracle upon.

  • Deleuze and Guattari are right in miracling fleas into the bestiary, but it is already rich enough to do without them.1998, Gary Genosko, Undisciplined Theory, page 117
  • They think I've miracled the dogs, as the Eucharist miracled my mother.2001, Susann Cokal, Mirabilis, page 33

More sentences with miracle

  • Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived.From the entry survive
  • Whether by a miracle or by good luck, all twenty passengers survived the crash.From the entry survive
  • His survival in the open ocean was a miracle; he had fully expected to die.From the entry survival
  • Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.From the entry walking
  • Step right up! Step right up! Our panacean patent medicine miracle cure-all will cure what ails ya! Cash only! No refunds.From the entry cure-all
  • His miracles furnished evidence of Jesus' claim of messiahship.From the entry messiahship
  • His miracles furnished evidence of Jesus' claim of Messiahship.From the entry messiahship
  • Accepts the congratulations of her teammates, who look like they have just seen a biblical miracle.2025 July 19, Jonathan Liew, “Ann-Katrin Berger follows up biblical miracle with penalty heroics for Germany”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry biblical
  • Let’s hope Shrimp Jesus performs a miracle soon; we need it.2025 January 8, Arwa Mahdawi, “AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?”, in The Guardian. From the entry Doctorow
  • So don’t expect miracles in a matter of a few weeks.2024 September 24, Beth Gillette, “I Tested Apostrophe, and I’ll Never Get Acne Meds From My Derm’s Office Again”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry spiro
  • It's really a miracle I'm still a virgin at twenty-one in the first place.2020 Page 1139. From the entry virgin
  • Since Kunlun Wonderland is called Immortal Burial Ground, then there must be countless treasures or miracles.2020, Xiao Fanzi, Tales of Ruffian in Fairyland, volume 5 (Fiction), Funstory, →ISBN, →ISBN. From the entry unsatisfiedly
  • It’s a miracle Lindsey Graham has met the concept of nuance.2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Encryption”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros.…. From the entry nuance
  • This miracle signals that she has become a myroblyte, a healing saint.2015, Haruko Nawata Ward, “Images of the Incarnation in the Jesuit Japan Mission's Kirishitanban Story of Virgin Martyr St. Catherine of…. From the entry myroblyte
  • South Africa's 'miracle transition' has not put an end to white privilege.2013, The Guardian, 21 Oct, (headline). From the entry privilege
  • In steampunk all the myths and miracles of the East that enchanted the Victorians can come true.2012, Shira Tarrant, Marjorie Jolles, Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style, page 197. From the entry Victoriental
  • Remarkable really, after all those Kölschs: nothing short of a miracle.2011, Tom Chesshyre, “Cologne: ‘Fear and Loathing by the Rhine’”, in Tales from the Fast Trains: Europe at 186 MPH, Summersdale…. From the entry kölsch
  • Mica, Kai, and Matthias find themselves at the epicenter of miracles, strange majick, and disaster.2011, David Scherer, Majicians' Journey: The Prophecy, →ISBN. From the entry majick
  • Bartoshuk said she did not know of any dangers associated with eating miracle fruit.2008 May 28, Patrick Farrell, Kassie Bracken, “A Tiny Fruit That Tricks the Tongue”, in New York Times. From the entry miraculin
  • For people who tolerate vitamin I well, it's pretty much a miracle drug.2008, Jayne Williams -, Shape Up with the Slow Fat Triathlete, →ISBN. From the entry vitamin I
  • It was marked for destruction but by a miracle had escaped the flames.2008, John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man, →ISBN, page 303. From the entry make the weather
  • What else constitutes a miracle if not its utter and absolute unexplicability?2007, Andrea Dortmann, “The Poets’ View […]”, in Winter Facets: Traces and Tropes of the Cold (Studies in Modern German Literature; 104)…. From the entry unexplicability
  • I want this miracle of life the frell out of me!2004 October 17, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, spoken by Rygel XVI (Jonathan Hardy (voice)). From the entry frell
  • This wasn't Italy or France, where such miracles are possible with a little political vigorish.1999, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit, published 2005, →ISBN, page 216. From the entry vigorish
  • Getting a dial tone and holding a conversation free of static are minor miracles.1998 March 8, Clifford Krauss, “Dialing for Dollars in Brazil's Telephone Privatization”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Aug 2016. From the entry minor miracle
  • That she could unpack, decode, index, retrieve, and interpret my reference at all was an unmodelable miracle.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 198. From the entry unmodelable
  • Ditka has to work to reinspire his veteran players, something he's performed miracles at all season long.1991 January 4, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry reinspire
  • All possible because of the miracle of unmoney manufactured out of deficit spending."1983, The New Farm, volume 5, page 41. From the entry unmoney
  • By what miracle had he come through that hail of lead without so much as a scratch?1973, Matt Braun, chapter 4, in El Paso, St. Martin’s Paperbacks edition, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published July 1999, →ISBN…. From the entry ungodly
  • In later and more complex multicells, a miracle of organization takes place.1973, Lyall Watson, Supernature, page viii. 246. From the entry multicell
  • It seemed to lump them with Germans against miracle or Swiss against Trinity or ranters against decorum.1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 174. From the entry high churchman

Meaning of miracle

  1. noun An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin.
  2. noun A fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it.
  3. noun An awesome and exceptional example of something.

Full definition of miracle

Questions about miracle in a sentence

How do you use miracle in a sentence?
Miracle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Many religious beliefs are based on miracles.”
What is a short sentence with miracle?
“miracle of engineering”
What does miracle mean?
Miracle means an event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miracle (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.

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