blessed

Example Sentences

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Canada is both blessed and cursed by its proximity to America, but we have little practical alternative to making the best of our relationship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

As Simon Elliott describes in his biography “The African Emperor,” Severus was a mercurial and contradictory character, capable by turns of savagery, cunning, wit and generosity, and always blessed with a sense of the theatrical.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

And yes, because we are blessed with famous weather, whole neighborhoods and districts can risk spilling out into the sidewalks, where laughs get louder, music gets blasted and the street fashion becomes a runway.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

The Supreme Court just last term blessed such schemes.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026

I didn’t need to take care of anything or anybody, and the silence was as blessed to me as the deepest kind of sleep could have been.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant