CELESTIAL in a Sentence

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30 example sentences for CELESTIAL, such as:

1. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light.
2. Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise.
3. Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial gleam.
4. She spoke of the celestial joys that awaited virtuous souls in the hereafter.
5. It mattered little for his object, whether celestial or from what other region.

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 Meanings and Examples of CELESTIAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
celestial
 a.  relating to the sky or the heavens; supremely good; god or angel
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
2  As for him, he bore upon his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still staring at him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
3  All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been horrible.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
4  One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME
5  Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
6  And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial chance, had given him back to her.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER
7  Love, at the height where it is absolute, is complicated with some indescribably celestial blindness of modesty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
8  There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS
9  A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of music, the cooing of nests, the buzzing of swarms, the flutterings of the breeze.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
10  It is impossible that this sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to the infinite.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
11  Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial gleam.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
12  Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her lover, her husband, her celestial male.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
13  Her sympathy was ours; her smile, her soft voice, the sweet glance of her celestial eyes, were ever there to bless and animate us.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  It mattered little for his object, whether celestial or from what other region.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
15  The belief was a favourite one with our forefathers, as betokening that their infant commonwealth was under a celestial guardianship of peculiar intimacy and strictness.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
Example Sentence:
1  There is a transparent dome on the top of the aircraft, through which celestial observations are made for navigation.
2  She spoke of the celestial joys that awaited virtuous souls in the hereafter.
3  Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.