HEAVENLY in a Sentence

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233 example sentences for HEAVENLY, such as:

1. Come what may, heaven won't fall.
2. The braying of an ass does not reach heaven.
3. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
4. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
5. The idea of heaven presupposes the existence of God.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEAVENLY
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heavenly
 a.  of or belonging to heaven or god
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
2  Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
3  So, to my fond faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweetness of his lunacy, brings heavenly vouchers of all our heavenly homes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
4  Her face was made of heavenly smiles, and her voice of tranquil music.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  My treatment, while in his employment, was heavenly, compared with what I experienced at the hands of Mr. Edward Covey.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  He loved her as something frail and earthly, yet almost worshipped her as something heavenly and divine.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  The mysterious warnings and intimations of Cassy, so far from discouraging his soul, in the end had roused it as with a heavenly call.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  Like a strange snatch of heavenly music, heard in the lull of a tempest, this burst of feeling made a moment's blank pause.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  It was so new and big and wonderful and such a heavenly color.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  Perhaps out of pure heavenly goodness the spring came and crowned everything it possibly could into that one place.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  He walked down to a little bowered terrace at the water's edge and sat upon a seat and breathed in all the heavenly scents of the night.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  On entering his house, he met Morrel, who wandered about like a ghost awaiting the heavenly mandate for return to the tomb.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 111. Expiation.
14  Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1
15  By degrees the calm and heavenly scene restored me, and I continued my journey towards Geneva.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  The first was a page so heavenly sweet -- so deadly sad -- that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy.
2  The first was a page so heavenly sweet that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy.
3  He believed that he and his wife would one day be together again in heaven.
4  If the heaven are too crowded, we went to hell rampant.
5  Oh, do not cry--- be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
6  Come what may, heaven won't fall.
7  Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
8  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
9  Yeah right, a little virgin, a device sent by heaven to cleanse your soul.
10  It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
11  Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
12  Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
13  The idea of heaven presupposes the existence of God.
14  I just lay in the sun for a week and did nothing - it was heaven.
15  The braying of an ass does not reach heaven.