PRETERNATURAL in a Sentence
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11 example sentences for PRETERNATURAL, such as:
1. In that darkling calm my senses seemed preternaturally sharpened.
2. Anger gave me preternatural strength, and I managed to force the door open.
3. In Pearl's young beauty, as in the wrinkled witch, it has a preternatural effect.
4. As usual after dinner he was slightly feverish, and his thoughts were preternaturally clear.
5. Malcolm's mother's total ability to tell when he was lying struck him as almost preternatural.
2. Anger gave me preternatural strength, and I managed to force the door open.
3. In Pearl's young beauty, as in the wrinkled witch, it has a preternatural effect.
4. As usual after dinner he was slightly feverish, and his thoughts were preternaturally clear.
5. Malcolm's mother's total ability to tell when he was lying struck him as almost preternatural.
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Meanings and Examples of PRETERNATURAL
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preternatural
a. being beyond normal course of nature; differing from natural
Classic Sentence:
1 His intellectual gifts, his moral perceptions, his power of experiencing and communicating emotion, were kept in a state of preternatural activity by the prick and anguish of his daily life.
2 In Pearl's young beauty, as in the wrinkled witch, it has a preternatural effect.
3 Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.
4 With a memory sharpened to almost preternatural clearness, she remarked every turn in the road, and formed a mental estimate of the time to be occupied in traversing it.
5 I remember but little of the journey; I only know that the day seemed to me of a preternatural length, and that we appeared to travel over hundreds of miles of road.
6 Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became preternatural; for all was in extremity.
7 In that darkling calm my senses seemed preternaturally sharpened.
8 As usual after dinner he was slightly feverish, and his thoughts were preternaturally clear.
Example Sentence:
1 Their parents had an almost preternatural ability to understand what was going on in their children's minds.
2 Anger gave me preternatural strength, and I managed to force the door open.
3 Malcolm's mother's total ability to tell when he was lying struck him as almost preternatural.