unearthly
Example Sentences
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Ms. Pratt’s voice is unearthly and beautiful, and it’s striking to hear her showing up in such a setting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
They did not leave disappointed as the sun shrank to a crescent-like sliver of light that cast an unearthly pale gloom over the city.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024
In the adept lithograph “Angels and Airplanes,” Russia’s Natalia Goncharova gives her blessing to the erupting conflagration by entwining unearthly militarism and Orthodox religiosity.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023
This summer alone, smoke from Canadian blazes turned North American skies an unearthly orange, “fire whirls” were seen in the Mojave Desert and raging flames in Maui led to disaster.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2023
Her face was beautiful but unearthly - her eyes too bright, her features too delicate, her smile too cold, as if she’d been studying human smiles and hadn’t quite mastered the art.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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