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

The day after she and her husband, Jack, sculpt the figure of a child out of snow, an ethereal waif emerges from the wilderness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 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

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

The church with the stained-glass windows was illuminated from the inside, which gave the building an ethereal look.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser