How to Use divine in a Sentence

divine

1 of 3 adjective

• They prayed for divine intervention.
• And that sense of searching for the divine is at the heart of most of the songs on Revel.
  — Caitlin White, SPIN, 3 July 2023
• Over the phone, Nudy says that the song’s success just might be divine.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• As usual, the skin was poppin’ and the face was divine.
  — Essence, 8 Jan. 2024
• While the steak rests, brush slices of country bread with olive oil and toss them on the grill—divine!
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 23 Jan. 2023
• Ahhh yes, that will smell divine when mixed with notes of poop and spit up!
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 14 Nov. 2023
• The spacecraft was ready to launch, the rocket was available, and the weather was divine.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• The old-school Rangers weren’t created by a divine hand.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
• The moon cannot be reduced to a resource or a divine symbol.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2023
• Gesar is said to have been born to a divine lineage and was destined to become a great ruler.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 July 2023
• There is Santa, who has divine strength and déjà vu, and takes on a politician called Ice.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Studio is a place to create, and 7 is the number of divine completion and the day I was born!
  — Stephanie Tharpe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• The shape of the wreath represents the eternal nature of God, and the opened top suggests a divine embrace.
  — Emily Robertson, Fox News, 4 June 2023
• There was nothing to do but take in the panorama of nature’s divine, our sweat drying in the wind.
  — Sophie Yun Mancini, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2024
• The eatery has been cooking up a storm for generations, and each has added its own touch to the divine menu.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2023
• On this day of Dussehra, may your home be filled with divine energy.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 29 Aug. 2023
• This year, go for something much more divine: A custom stand-alone tub.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
• When there’s word of a rising Messiah and His apostles, Clarence wants to carve put his own plan to a divine life.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 18 Dec. 2023
• Give Extra Prep Space After all, one sink is fine, but two sinks are divine.
  — Carisha Swanson, House Beautiful, 30 July 2023
• The aim of this festival is to celebrate the rich flora, deep culture and divine food of Bhutan.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Back at the reservoir, the path felt lackluster — a reminder that there was no divine order.
  — Jessica Amento, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• The Furies of ancient Greece and Rome were also divine, a trio of miserable hags with snakes for hair.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• The sweet, crunchy streusel—which would also be divine on muffins, by the way—is balanced by a sour cream mixture that keeps the sugar from going off the charts.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2023
• When paired with a little bit of divine timing and a lot of hard work, his pure talent set him on an early path to success in the field.
  — Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
• Holi is a Hindu festival that celebrates the triumph of good over evil, and the divine love of the god and goddess Krishna and Radha.
  — Mark Graves | , oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2023
• People used cheese to divine all sorts of things: who committed a crime, whether the year would bring a fruitful harvest, and how a child’s life would turn out.
  — Jennifer Billock, Saveur, 16 Nov. 2023
• To our minds, the tiny grains of sand and the unique medley of colors and depths across our coastlines and shallow flats are simply matters of divine creation.
  — Noelle Khalila Nicolls, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
• In the last room, alongside the fanciful maps, divine figures return.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
• The banana pudding on the buffet line’s divine, and the fruit-forward peach cobbler and dense dinner-rolls aren’t far behind.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2023
• The divine spirit inside you may be asking you to rise to the occasion by giving you these visions.
  — Essence, 1 Feb. 2024

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divine

2 of 3 noun

• And Weir’s way with a chorus does tend to clear a path to the divine.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
• People feel close to the divine there, nestled on the edge of the San Luis Valley.
  — Christopher Moyer, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2021
• The thin skin is transparent and al dente; the juicy pork is divine.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2017
• For them, the whirling dance symbolizes pure love — a return to the divine.
  — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
• Must passion this intense yield to the divine, lend its force to the sacred?
  — Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
• The best will come close to perfection, as if nearing the divine.
  — Mark Cho, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2021
• To walk under a live oak is to feel the presence of the divine; hold your camera to it, and the spirit escapes.
  — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Even a daydreamy young girl had a hard time locating the divine over the glare of blacktop and the whine of power tools.
  — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
• Our ancestors gazed at the world around us—the people and animals, the mountains and seas, the sun, moon and stars—and saw the divine.
  — Dan Falk, Scientific American, 27 July 2021
• The Bhagavad Gita says all paths lead toward the divine.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2021
• Both the Bible and the Quran list mercy and justice as foremost divine attributes.
  — Hasan Zillur Rahim, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2017
• The McFarlands say the place does, indeed, seem a little closer to the divine.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
• In ancient Egypt, chamomile was considered a gift from the divine.
  — Hetty Lui McKinnon Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• An actor must summon the divine from the deepest part of himself.
  — Paul Vitello, New York Times, 10 July 2019
• Titian is feeling out the very limits of mortal contact with the divine.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• The Elizabethan poet and divine was a mystic in bed and a mystic in the pulpit.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022
• There’s a certain sadness that comes with coming across the divine at a tender age.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 14 Apr. 2020
• They were viewed as having a direct connection to the divine.
  — Rosalyn R. Lapier, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
• Jack goes with Adam to identify the spark of the divine, his final test, and Adam reveals that this entire thing is his plan.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• And the first crucial step on that journey was the recognition that all people are born in the image of God, and carry a spark of the divine in them.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 31 July 2020
• And Blandine, an unlikely linchpin, brings the divine down to earth.
  — Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• First, there’s the sheer number of people who want a harbor and even a taste of the divine in this season of such relentless grief.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2020
• This lightweight oil smells divine and gives curls just the right amount of moisture without being heavy.
  — Danielle Gray, Allure, 24 Jan. 2018
• Since Gorr is out to eliminate all gods, what better place to seek assistance than where the divine go to align?
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
• In some traditions, the I-self is not just a ticket to happiness but a connection to the divine.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2022
• The show is divided into two themes, one mortal and the other divine.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• And this was D Divine’s designation that was approved by the feds in June, but the divine and the legisla.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022
• The connection to the divine isn’t a far away place, but rather a oneness that is always with us, a portal that can be accessed at any time.
  — Coastmag, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
• At other times, Mr. Trump is treated as something close to divine.
  — Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
• The book takes its title from a poem of Friedrich Schiller’s praising a mythic past when contact with the divine was part of daily life.
  — Caleb Crain, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2021

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divine

3 of 3 verb

• Read his piece at The New York Times and divine the truth for yourself.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 July 2018
• For a first look at the final season, divine your way over here.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• For a first look at the 14-episode final season, divine your way over here.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Polls cannot divine the future and should not be treated as gospel truth.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• Perhaps this is why Glück turns to them, again and again, to divine the texture of our inner life.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2020
• And, by extension, is there a way to divine whether Wang will survive?
  — Anna Altman, The New Yorker, 4 June 2019
• The words in her poems are like divining rods wiggling above an icy stream.
  — The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• James was already trying to divine ways to combat them in Game 2.
  — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
• This source divined that Jayme had been abducted, raped and left in a small pond or lake northeast or east of her home.
  — Peter Passi / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2019
• And now, the speed of the planet's passing can also divine the star's density.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2017
• What remains is to divine the motivations of the plaintiffs in this case, and thereby those of the Trump White House.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• Look to these six states to divine the future of free elections in America.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
• This cedes one of the challengers’ core premises: that one cannot divine the president’s motives from the text of the order itself.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 5 June 2017
• The motives for the recent actions by inscrutable governments in Riyadh, Cairo and Ankara were hard to divine.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
• Grammar striding to divine this weave in not quite seeing.
  — Ben Lerner, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• These are merely some of the variables at play as businesses try to divine the future.
  — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• For his part, Wade Eliason can’t divine what the weather gods have in store or the fate of Utah’s agriculture industry.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
• Ostler tries to divine what’s bringing it all together now.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2020
• Munch was not the only young artist trying to divine what lay beneath or beyond the visible world.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• Each woman places her wreath in a river to divine her romantic future by its fate in the water’s flow (or by which man jumps in to save it).
  — Dominika Dyka, National Geographic, 6 July 2020
• When divining the moral character of the people running our country, we are asked to take their friends’ words for it.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 9 Apr. 2017
• What that means in 2022, however, is harder to divine than ever.
  — Amy Erica Smith, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2022
• Their job is not to divine who’s good and who’s bad—defense attorneys ensure that even the most disgusting among us get due process.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Apr. 2018
• They're built puke rays and strobe tanks and amnesia devices in an attempt to divine the ultimate weapon.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
• As with so much else in the crisis, the line between fact and alternative fact is sometimes difficult to divine.
  — Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, The Atlantic, 24 June 2017
• Based on inner qualities divined by a hat (yes, a hat), each student at Hogwarts is assigned to live in one of four houses.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Amongst pros, the sentiment that the OWGR seems to be driven more by divining rod than prowess with the putter when all the chips are on the line is a popular one across tour lines.
  — Mike Dojc, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Sometimes divining a beauty look worthy of a trip around the sun is as simple as playing off your party dress.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2018
• The goal is not to understand an issue, let alone divine the truth, but to broadcast what Democrats and Republicans care about at that moment.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2021
• Weaknesses: Themes of loss and grief and divining the truth are buried in the blitz of structural flourishes and misdirection.
  — oregonlive, 16 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024