Example sentences for: spirits

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

  • 5 ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits (100 calories)

  • Spirits (liquor) and liqueurs may be less expensive — but the choice more limited — at the duty-free shops as you leave France.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, stereoscope enthusiast, wrote of the experience that “the shutting out of surrounding objects, and the concentration of the whole attention, which is a consequence of this, produce a dreamlike exaltation…in which we seem to leave the body behind us and sail away into one strange scene after another, like disembodied spirits” (Holmes 1861).

  • This act, called puja, may consist of placing a small dish of oil, grains of rice, or flower petals at an altar in the home, at a temple, or a tree, stone, or other place sacred to the spirits.

  • It will no doubt lift his spirits to hear from one of the young'uns who is respectful of his age and experience.


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