MIRACLE in a Sentence

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The defeated England coach, Bobby Robson, described it as a miracle, which following 'the Hand-of-God' goal seems supremely apt.

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 Meanings and Examples of MIRACLE
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miracle
 n.  wonderful thing; something that excites admiration or astonishment
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  Sunset and spring and new-fledged greenery were no miracle to Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  He only knew that a miracle had happened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  They think God is going to work a miracle especially for their benefit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  The only miracle that's going to be worked around here is the one I'm going to work on Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  She wasn't going to sit down and patiently wait for a miracle to help her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  She decided that she would give up library work and, by a miracle whose nature was not very clearly revealed to her, turn a prairie town into Georgian houses and Japanese bungalows.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  The rest of the party waited for the miracle of being amused.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  She hurried out to apprize Mrs. Leonard Warren, as president of the Thanatopsis, of the miracle which had been worked.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah's going to Nineveh via the Cape of Good Hope was advanced as a signal magnification of the general miracle.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.
11  He was a strapping young fellow in the early twenties then, handsome, warm-hearted, and full of life, and he came to us like a miracle in the midst of that grim business.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
12  Before I could sit down in the chair she offered me, the miracle happened; one of those quiet moments that clutch the heart, and take more courage than the noisy, excited passages in life.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
13  They would no sooner escape, as by a miracle, from one difficulty, than a new one would come into view.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  Also, he continued, it would be a miracle if he found his regiment.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
15  It 'll be a miracle if we find our reg'ments t'-night.'
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  At work he was regarded as a miracle worker, the man who took risks and could not lose.
2  If you consider him a miracle man, you're overrating him.
3  I can't promise a miracle cure, but I think we can improve things.
4  The victory was nothing less than a miracle.
5  Making a million friends is not a miracle.
6  The compact disc is a miracle of modern technology.
7  It was a positive miracle that we survived.
8  The letter's survival is something of a minor miracle.
9  Making millions of friends is not a miracle.
10  The defeated England coach, Bobby Robson, described it as a miracle, which following 'the Hand-of-God' goal seems supremely apt.
11  As the flock is in shock with this miracle occurring to the crazy person, word begins to spread around Ann Arbor.
12  Pat Wallace, the director of the National Museum of Ireland, called the first discovery of an early medieval document in two centuries "a miracle find".
13  "The main miracle is that with money or no money, we have life," said Yadira Rivera.
14  The miracle is an event inexplicable by the laws of nature.
15  Still, the resurrection is the movie's only out-and-out miracle, and it lacks good explanation.