Example sentences for: saintly

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

  • Sounds bad, but Saddam's natural son Uday is reputed to make his father seem saintly by comparison.

  • "ZM" performed a saintly act in the eyes of anyone lucky enough to ever share space with man's noblest companion.

  • The sole exception to this, I suppose, is the equally saintly TV-free Maureen Dowd.

  • An answer is, as above, that Slate doesn't want to be dependent on the charity of any rich person, even one as saintly and magnificent as our employer.

  • You treat The Green Mile as if it's a humanist milestone on the order of To Kill a Mockingbird . But it has been more than a third of a century since Mockingbird 's Great White Father and that shambling, saintly black martyr who pays for the sex crimes of white men--and in-between came the civil-rights movement.


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