ANGELIC in a Sentence

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153 example sentences for ANGELIC, such as:

1. No sin at all is the dream of the angel.
2. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
3. Talk of an angel and you'll hear his wings.
4. Every girl was once an angel without tears.
5. All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANGELIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
angelic
 a.  marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint
 a.  of or relating to angels
Classic Sentence: (142 in 10 pages)
1  He hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the old man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
2  Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and Dante kneel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER
3  "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the very earth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING
4  All this, it is true, detracted nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
5  And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic whisper: "So it is true."
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
6  Jo was not in a good humor, and the perverse fit returned, but Amy, who had virtuously done her duty, kept her temper and pleased everybody, was in a most angelic frame of mind.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
7  Her small virtues were so sweet that she would have been quite angelic if a few small naughtinesses had not kept her delightfully human.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
8  Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic; I do not know what to say to you.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
9  So Arthur took her hand and knelt beside her, and she looked her best, with all the soft lines matching the angelic beauty of her eyes.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  It was unsoldierly; but it was angelic.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
11  On hearing this word, Felix came up hastily to the lady, who, when she saw him, threw up her veil, and I beheld a countenance of angelic beauty and expression.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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.
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.