Example sentences for: metaphysical

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

  • She also understands the importance of evil, both metaphysical (Voldemort), and human: Petunia and Vernon Dursley, the Muggle aunt and uncle who raise Harry in his orphanhood, along with their doted-on, sublimely piggish son Dudley, are grotesques worthy of Roald Dahl; Draco Malfoy, Harry's nemesis at Hogwarts, and Severus Snape (she's terrific with names), the diabolical potions teacher, are brilliant foils for Harry's flawed, instinctual goodness.

  • Whether a government check intended to mitigate a tax burden amounts to a tax cut or a spending increase is yet another metaphysical question.

  • Faith is about the metaphysical world, that world of events, occurrences, and mysteries that by their very nature can never be proved objectively.

  • But whereas Borges at his best elicits from readers a shudder of metaphysical terror, and Calvino stimulates a spasm of epistemological ecstasy, Stoppard consistently induces in his audiences a frisson of self-congratulatory pleasure.

  • The answer turns on so many metaphysical questions as to be nearly meaningless.


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