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• So sublime was the region that many credit it with being the birthplace of British tourism.2026 May, Cyrus Dunham, “Nature's Way”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 106. From the entry credit
• How sublime a music to hear these hundreds of men entune their sacred anthems to God.2020, Joseph Krauskopf, Jews and Moors in Spain. From the entry entune
• The sublime volcanic lake of Tianchi straddles the border with North Korea.2017, “History & Culture”, in National Geographic Traveler: China, 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19. From the entry Tianchi
• It’s a complex concoction of organic grapefruit, rosemary, and a touch of honey—in a word—sublime!2017 November 28, Paul “Sweet Paul” Lowe, “The Ruby Grapefruitini: A Gin Cocktail”, in Sweet Paul Magazine, archived from the original on…. From the entry grapefruitini
• But Perisic dipped a sublime 20-yard shot home to salvage a draw.2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2023. From the entry salvage
• It’s out there somewhere in our farflung metropolis—the perfect, sublime, ultimate doughnut.1980 March 16, “Pages: What’s ahead?”, in Giles M. Fowler, editor, STAR: The Weekly Magazine (The Kansas City Star), Kansas City, Mo.: The…. From the entry taste-off
• I wish you had commended the Negro sit-inner and demonstrators for their sublime courage.1963, Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail. From the entry sit-inner
• Given the sweeping and sublime tempestuosity of Wagner’s compositions, one would be somewhat courageous to tell him that!2020, Frank England, “The Sound of God”, in Fictions of God, Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Publications, →ISBN. From the entry tempestuosity
• Bumbling so common deserves little notice, but Quaylisms reach the sublime: they achieve Solomonic stupidity or Shakespearean inarticulateness.2012, Gary Saul Morson, “[Witticisms and Witlessisms] Stupidity Shines”, in The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel, Stanford…. From the entry Quaylism
• When that crust is nubbly and evenly browned, and the chicken meat is cooked through, the chicken is sublime.2007 February 7, Julia Moskin, “Koreans Share Their Secret for Chicken With a Crunch”, in New York Times. From the entry nubbly
• A solid sublimes only when the pressure of its vapor is below that of the triple point for that substance.2006, David B. Troy, Paul Beringer, Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry triple point
• For Ahab, accession to the sublime image entails abhoring, killing, and thereby magically fusing with the White Whale.2000, Suzanne Stein, The Pusher and the Sufferer. From the entry abhoring
• During this period, stirred by Burkean notions of the sublime, Anglo-Irish antiquarianists were fictionally re-creating the Irish past in droves.1999, Margot Gayle Backus, The Gothic Family Romance, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry antiquarianist
• Don't kid youself, kings are the most sublime sick.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry off the track
• UPON this shifting foundation, treacherous and uncertain as life itself, Cary succeeds in building a series of sublime affirmations.1958, John Brooks, Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street, Harper & Row, page 281. From the entry surrealistic
• It sublimes on heating and decomposes into mellon and NH₃.1916, Victor von Richter, Organic chemistry, volume I, Chemistry of the Aliphatic Series, page 473. From the entry mellon
• It was interfused and tangled with Greatorex's sublimest feelings.1914, May Sinclair, The Three Sisters. From the entry interfuse
• The film itself is stark, minimalist, a single character in a non-descript liminal space, somewhat created in a vacuum of sublime and heightened intimacy.2023 February 16–21, Lynne Robinson, quoting John Biscello, “Behind the scenes of ‘The Bride’ with John Biscello”, in Tempo (Taos News)…. From the entry non-descript
• The rugburn became increasingly inflamed, and, through trembling lips, which were pursed as if to whistle, my cure began singing its sublime, plaintive painsong.2021, Adam Levin, Bubblegum, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry rugburn
• Modern eco-fascists still draw on the same Romantic contrast between the sublime hierarchies of nature and the supposedly effete degeneracy of modernity.2019 November 29, Jeff Sparrow, “Eco-fascists and the ugly fight for 'our way of life' as the environment disintegrates”, in The Guardian. From the entry ecofascist
• Sublime cafe fare (and gourmet takeaway) in a sunny, noisy setting crowded with suits, ladies who lunch and artsy Mass Ave types.2006 February, Indianapolis Monthly, page 263. From the entry lady who lunches
• He had never communicated real Klankraft to his followers, and no one but him today knows the "sublime loftiness" of its "mystic philosophies."2004, Charles W. Ferguson, The New Books of Revelations, page 264. From the entry Klankraft
• The emotions involved in affairs can seem like a rollercoaster ride – one moment sublime and exciting, the next full of guilt and confusion.2001, Julia Cole, After the Affair, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry affair
• Browning and Christina Rossetti and Laurence Hope, in their several different ways, have gotten themselves expressed only through a sublime and glorious unashamedness.1909, Clayton Hamilton, “The Drama”, in The Forum, volume XLI, page 138. From the entry unashamedness
• He is an overgrown adolescent – as demonstrated in the sublime set piece in which he dances with an inflatable globe, dreaming of being "emperor of the world".2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC. From the entry set piece
• The affective register of deep time was one of terror and wonder, fashioned to fit a vision of the sublime that transcended and yet somehow affirmed humanity.2016 October 31, David Farrier, “How the Concept of Deep Time Is Changing”, in The Atlantic. From the entry deep time
• In the voice of Antony, for example, Cassian describes anachoresis as leading to a more sublime perfection than is available to those living within a community.2013, Steven D. Driver, John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry anachoresis
• I'd trade one of their sublime sentences for the entire crop of sprawling, show-offy novels – dog′s breakfasts of facetiousness – that are currently the literary vogue.2010, Kate Jennings, “Bouleversé”, in Trouble: Evolution of a Radical/Selected Writings 1970–2010, page 277. From the entry dog's breakfast
• The spirit of the Kampen historians is far less sublime and instead of antiquitising philosophical and historical remarks we rather encounter practical and instrumental guidance for the city’s administration.2001, Rudolf Suntrup, Jan R. Veenstra, editors, Tradition and Innovation in an Era of Change, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry antiquitise
• This curious blend of the sublime and the bathetic does not come again until Kafka, another pupil of Cervantes, would compose stories like "The Hunter Gracchus" and "A Country Doctor".2003 December 13, Harold Bloom, “The knight in the mirror”, in The Guardian. From the entry bathetic
• His metaphysical grandiloquizing upon the terms sublime and ridiculous, infinitely little and infinitely great, is fruitless of true meaning, and that I suppose was the essence of its emotional value.1921, Max Eastman, “The Discovery of Benign Humor”, in The Sense of Humor, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 169. From the entry grandiloquize

Meaning of sublime

1. verb To heat (a substance) in a container so as to convert it into a gas which then condenses in solid form on cooler parts of the container; (generally) to change (a solid substance) into a gas without breaking down or passing through the liquid state by heating it gently.
2. verb To obtain or purify (a substance) in this manner.
3. verb To raise (someone or an intangible thing) to a state of (especially moral or spiritual) excellence; to exalt.

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How do you use sublime in a sentence?

Sublime is used as a verb, adjective and noun. For example: “He is behaving like a sublime idiot.”

What is a short sentence with sublime?

“a sublime deed”

What does sublime mean?

Sublime means to heat (a substance) in a container so as to convert it into a gas which then condenses in solid form on cooler parts of the container; (generally) to change (a solid substance) into a gas without breaking down or passing through the liquid state by heating it gently.