Example sentences for: divinity

How can you use “divinity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With all respect, that seems a highly debatable issue and one far too complex for this discussion, though we can certainly trace a diminution in the role of female divinities (or divinity) when we come to examine Judaism and its congeners and progeny.

  • Gore, by contrast, smoked pot, worked construction, attended divinity school, and muckraked at a Tennessee newspaper.

  • This restriction reinforces the notion of the imperial family as living descendents and representatives of the gods — despite the emperor’s renunciation of divinity announced as one of the terms of surrender at the end of World War II (when some people literally fainted upon hearing the emperor’s voice on the radio for the first time).

  • Another form the personal God may take involves a fragmentation of the concept of divinity itself.

  • Writing in the Washington Times , Robert Alt contrasted the Roman Catholic belief in transubstantiation, "whereby the bread and wine, while maintaining their ordinary physical qualities, are substantively transformed in the Eucharist into the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ," with consubstantiation, the Methodist (and Lutheran) teaching that "the bread and wine and Christ's presence exist simultaneously."


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