angels
Example Sentences
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Children arrived naughty and finished like angels, full of ideas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
It is also where Abraham Lincoln, as the nation stood on the brink of Civil War, appealed to “the better angels of our nature.”
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
And after spending years appealing to Butcher’s better angels, Hughie ultimately serves as his mentor’s final restraint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
In the message, recorded before the crash, Javed described a dream: two angels had come for him and, before taking him away, bathed him in a fragrance that smelled of roses.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
But Jam trusted her mother for those brutal truths, and that’s why home was the first place she brought the books with the angels in them.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
