ANGEL in a Sentence

Learn ANGEL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

153 example sentences for ANGEL, such as:

1. She is an angel, you see, my sisters.
2. No sin at all is the dream of the angel.
3. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
4. Every girl was once an angel without tears.
5. Talk of an angel and you'll hear his wings.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANGEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
angel
 n.  spiritual being attendant upon God
 n.  person of exceptional holiness
Classic Sentence: (142 in 10 pages)
1  What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL
2  No sin at all is the dream of the angel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken the door.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
4  Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
5  The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
6  In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, the other like her good angel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
7  She is an angel, you see, my sisters.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
8  A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an angel drinking in the light.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
9  Both had wings, the one like an angel, the other like a goose.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
10  Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau Nasica, the ox of discipline, bos disciplinae, the bloodhound of the password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square exact, rigid, honest, and hideous.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
11  This man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD
12  She was at the age when the virgin bears her love as the angel his lily.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
13  The white angel and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the abyss.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
14  The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
15  It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel springing from the earth in the form of Thenardier.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
Example Sentence:
1  According to the Bible, an angel told Mary that she would have God's son Jesus.
2  All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
3  Your angel, your love with the wrist, touch every injured child.
4  Every girl was once an angel without tears.
5  Talk of an angel and you'll hear his wings.
6  He refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination.
7  His exaltation had but one alloy -- the memory of his humiliation in this angel's garden -- and that record in sand was fast washing out, under the waves of happiness that were sweeping over it now.
8  The citadel overlooked the city like a protecting angel.
9  Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when your wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
10  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
11  Speak of angels and you will hear their wings.