SUPERNATURAL in a Sentence

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28 example sentences for SUPERNATURAL, such as:

1. He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.
2. In that eerie setting, it was easy to believe in ghosts and other supernatural beings.
3. Though bodily unharmed, it uttered cries, as some king's ghost in supernatural distress.
4. We had seen incredible manifestations of supernatural presence and power of God for miracles.
5. In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUPERNATURAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
supernatural
 a.  not existing in nature or explanation according to natural laws
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  She put out her hand, and measured the soothing drops into a glass; but as she did so, she knew they would be powerless against the supernatural lucidity of her brain.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
2  Instantly I felt a shock running through all my frame; nothing was to be seen, and nothing was to be heard; but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
3  But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike the imagination with unwonted power.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
4  He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
5  Though bodily unharmed, it uttered cries, as some king's ghost in supernatural distress.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
6  A dozen blazing piles now shed their lurid brightness on the place, which resembled some unhallowed and supernatural arena, in which malicious demons had assembled to act their bloody and lawless rites.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
7  However implicit the faith of David was in the performance of ancient miracles, he eschewed the belief of any direct supernatural agency in the management of modern morality.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
8  Sam was in the highest possible feather, and expressed his exultation by all sorts of supernatural howls and ejaculations, by divers odd motions and contortions of his whole system.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  It was one of those collections of stories of bloody murders, ghostly legends, and supernatural visitations, which, coarsely got up and illustrated, have a strange fascination for one who once begins to read them.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
10  Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome and almost intolerable.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
13  She vanished like a discontented fairy; or like one of those supernatural beings, whom it was popularly supposed I was entitled to see; and never came back any more.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
14  'That's tellings, my blessed infant,' she retorted, tapping her nose again, screwing up her face, and twinkling her eyes like an imp of supernatural intelligence.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
15  "Pistols, then, at eight o'clock, in the Bois de Vincennes," said Beauchamp, quite disconcerted, not knowing if he was dealing with an arrogant braggadocio or a supernatural being.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.
Example Sentence:
1  In that eerie setting, it was easy to believe in ghosts and other supernatural beings.
2  We had seen incredible manifestations of supernatural presence and power of God for miracles.