PRETERNATURAL in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for PRETERNATURAL, such as:

1. In that darkling calm my senses seemed preternaturally sharpened.
2. Anger gave me preternatural strength, and I managed to force the door open.
3. In Pearl's young beauty, as in the wrinkled witch, it has a preternatural effect.
4. As usual after dinner he was slightly feverish, and his thoughts were preternaturally clear.
5. Malcolm's mother's total ability to tell when he was lying struck him as almost preternatural.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRETERNATURAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
preternatural
 a.  being beyond normal course of nature; differing from natural
Classic Sentence:
1  His intellectual gifts, his moral perceptions, his power of experiencing and communicating emotion, were kept in a state of preternatural activity by the prick and anguish of his daily life.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
2  In Pearl's young beauty, as in the wrinkled witch, it has a preternatural effect.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
3  Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
4  With a memory sharpened to almost preternatural clearness, she remarked every turn in the road, and formed a mental estimate of the time to be occupied in traversing it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  I remember but little of the journey; I only know that the day seemed to me of a preternatural length, and that we appeared to travel over hundreds of miles of road.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became preternatural; for all was in extremity.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
7  In that darkling calm my senses seemed preternaturally sharpened.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  As usual after dinner he was slightly feverish, and his thoughts were preternaturally clear.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  Their parents had an almost preternatural ability to understand what was going on in their children's minds.
2  Anger gave me preternatural strength, and I managed to force the door open.
3  Malcolm's mother's total ability to tell when he was lying struck him as almost preternatural.