Example sentences for: ethereal

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

  • Its principal interest for many Americans, however, is that this is Hilda's Tower, where the ethereal heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marble Faun lived while she studied painting in Rome.

  • It's a spacey sort of blues, with Davis and Shorter playing furiously against the ethereal, Rothko-like shadings of Hancock's Fender Rhodes and Carter's electric bass and the anxious pulse of Williams' ride cymbal.

  • 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."

  • Even though perceptual sensations may strike us as ethereal, they must be based on patterns of activity in neuronal hardware—thus, we need to look into the brains of animals to see how the neuronal circuitry processes the information from the sense organs.

  • 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.


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