SUBLIME in a Sentence
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93 example sentences for SUBLIME, such as:
1. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime.
2. This crowd may be rendered sublime.
3. The most sublime act is to set another before you.
4. From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
5. There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
2. This crowd may be rendered sublime.
3. The most sublime act is to set another before you.
4. From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
5. There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Meanings and Examples of SUBLIME
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sublime
a. inspiring awe
a. worthy of adoration or reverence
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1 Incomplete, it may be, but sublime.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2 That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously conscious.
3 Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his sublime dream.
4 All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns.
5 Fantine acquired this sublime talent, and regained a little courage.
6 But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which two teeth were lacking.
7 The peculiarity of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses into spectators.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
8 This would enjoin us from consigning something sublime to History.
9 There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA
10 All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring.
11 This crowd may be rendered sublime.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE
12 Marius came to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species of lion-lamb who had been his father.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
13 Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
14 Admirable and terrible trial from which the feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime.
15 A grave situation being given, he had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he might be sublime.
Example Sentence:
1 The most sublime act is to set another before you.
2 Every day is birthday time when thinking of you,and I shall keep one sublime hoping your many dreams come true.
3 There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
4 From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
5 Thomas Carlyle , notwithstanding his tedious rhetoric, is a master of the sublime in prose style.
6 What pushes this matter to the sublime is the reality the world is battling a terror threat which has given license to the authorities to treat ordinary citizens like chattel.
7 He was a midfielder of considerable strengths, a taker of sublime free-kicks, a global brand, a nice guy, a genuine role model, a petulant peacock at times but always a tireless worker for his teams.