saintly

Example Sentences

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When the rapping resumes, the man goes to the window to admit “a stately Raven / of the saintly days of yore.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Or as close to saintly as anything involving tar sands can get.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025

Similarly, after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, the “Notorious RBG” meme ecosystem instantly expanded to include digital portraits and merchandise that cast her as a saintly defender of justice.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2025

That is a category reserved for martyrs, those deemed to have lived a life of heroic values and candidates who the Church declares to have a saintly reputation.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

Elizabeth’s heart-rending eloquence failed to move the judges from their settled conviction in the criminality of the saintly sufferer.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley