heavenly

Example Sentences

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His fugues are a draftsman’s rendering of heavenly splendor.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

There is something elementally heavenly about the smell of alliums cooking in butter.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2025

The sparkle implies heavenly powers but not the type that a person might misuse.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025

The pre-Revolutionary era aligned with advances in knowledge of the heavenly bodies, sparked by telescopes and a firmament not-yet-obstructed by skyscrapers and pollution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

“The arc of her lips,” he adds elsewhere, “appears to be about to erupt into divine sarcasm, heavenly irony, angelic derision.”

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day