Example sentences for: ethereal

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

  • It can be cafés and restaurants set in the 19th-century lanes of Nahlat Shiv’a, or it can be the sky lit with an ethereal sunset over the Old City as muezzins call from the minarets of ancient mosques.

  • While other civilisations, with their 'insect origins,' fumble with such ideas as the timeless and ethereal qualities of a woman's beauty, our beginnings attest to these ideals from time immemorial.

  • It is not: "In the latter Tang dynasty," says the wall panel, "Buddhist images tended to become more ponderous, fleshy, and overly ornate, completely departing from the slender and ethereal beauty characteristic of many sixth-century sculptures."

  • Depending on whom you consult, following her apprenticeship in suffering Woolf became the woman who wrote To The Lighthouse and The Waves , a stream-of-consciousness pioneer and a cool, ethereal priestess of high modernism.

  • To enjoy the sounds of Portugal back home, take home a classic fado recording, perhaps by Amália Rodrigues or Carlos Paredes, or a disc of ethereal Portuguese pop by the Lisbon group Madredeus.


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