ethereal

Example Sentences

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She feels borne along by the ethereal sounds and unaccountably stirred by the slightest tonal changes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

The lyrics were eerie and ethereal: “Who can say where the road goes? Where the day flows? Only time”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 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

What might have been an ethereal laugh from the fairy queen floated into his ear.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley