angel

Example Sentences

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It opens in a London pub, where Rodrigo is besotted by a boy who "looks like an angel on the walls of Versailles".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

This last day of the hajj coincides with Eid al-Adha, the festival celebrating the memory of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son before the angel Gabriel intervened and offered him a goat in Ishmael's place.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

They were going to put their white dog Miss Honey in angel wings and have her deliver the rings via zipline, but then decided it’d be too terrifying for all involved.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

A breathtaking dancer, Alexis Fousekis, served as what might be heaven’s most eccentric angel.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

He believed he had seen transmutation performed; he evidently thought it likely that the anonymous stranger who had performed it, in his presence and with his assistance, was an angel, no less.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton