Example sentences for: sublime

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

  • Friedman is a Lexus man himself--he lets it be known that he drives one of these sublime sedans around the Washington suburb where he lives, when he's not trading Internet stocks on the Internet, communicating with CEOs by cell phone, or eating a Big Mac in some far-flung capital.

  • Such gossip pales beside this "maundering," this reverie for which I am intensely thankful; for nothing so solaces me, calms me in the perplexity of life, and miraculously raises its burdens, as this sublime power, this divine talent for writing endlessly about hardly anything at all, & one should no more interrupt it, while it lasts than one should break the crockery in one's home and leave the shards lying on the kitchen floor for no reason.

  • The white almond blossoms in spring are one of the most sublime sights in Portugal.

  • The supreme tragedies leave us not devastated but exhilarated, and the sublime actors, the moment their performances begin, stop acting.

  • It's typical of Goodman's blend of the sublime and the haimish (homey) that when Elizabeth experiences an epiphany while looking at Cole's picture, it is the revelation of a most unambitious ambition: She wants to open a kosher grocery store.


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