ethereal

Example Sentences

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This work is ethereal, and maybe something solid will create a knot.’

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

As Wenger wrote in 1990: "Akangbe, bodily and spiritually voluminous, creates works of an ethereal, sublimely weightless loftiness. His work is a primary eruption of genius."

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

A recurring song, “Stranger” by Sweden’s Anna von Hausswolff, creates an ethereal, floating sensation like one of the oddest Lana Del Rey compositions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Levito was second in the free skate with an ethereal performance to the music of "Cinema Paradiso" that put her third overall on 224.45 points.

From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026

But observation and historical records have failed to uncover a single case of a state’s being formed in that ethereal atmosphere of dispassionate farsightedness.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond