METAPHYSICAL in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for METAPHYSICAL, such as:

1. But we've talked enough metaphysics.
2. Their argument was too metaphysical for me to follow.
3. All students receive tuition in logic and metaphysics.
4. Candide, Martin, and Pangloss sometimes disputed about morals and metaphysics.
5. Hunting was equally a devotion, full of metaphysical concepts veiled from Carol.

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 Meanings and Examples of METAPHYSICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
metaphysical
 a.  without material form or substance; based on abstract reasoning; highly abstract or theoretical; supernatural
Classic Sentence:
1  By-and-by, when you've got a name, you can afford to digress, and have philosophical and metaphysical people in your novels, said Amy, who took a strictly practical view of the subject.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
2  Her father liked the metaphysical streak which had unconsciously got into it, so that was allowed to remain though she had her doubts about it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
3  Hunting was equally a devotion, full of metaphysical concepts veiled from Carol.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
5  Levin felt that it would be improper to enter upon a metaphysical discussion with the priest, and so he said in reply merely what was a direct answer to the question.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
6  He would transfer a question to metaphysical heights, pass on to definitions of space, time, and thought, and, having deduced the refutation he needed, would again descend to the level of the original discussion.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI
7  A metaphysical school of the North, impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the word Will.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
8  This was a case of metaphysics, at least as difficult for Joe to deal with as for me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
9  But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
10  Katavasov was very fond of discussing metaphysics, having derived his notions from natural science writers who had never studied metaphysics, and in Moscow Levin had had many arguments with him of late.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 14
11  At length Candide, having always had a taste for metaphysics, made Cacambo ask whether there was any religion in that country.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
12  Candide, Martin, and Pangloss sometimes disputed about morals and metaphysics.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXX
13  However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
14  But we've talked enough metaphysics.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence:
1  They might be ignorant of certain metaphysical necessities while knowing all the truths about the meanings of their contracts.
2  Their argument was too metaphysical for me to follow.
3  All students receive tuition in logic and metaphysics.