How to Use divinity in a Sentence

divinity

noun
  • Christians believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ.
  • Or maybe Satoshi was the sort of divinity who turned his back on his flock.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
  • This is what divinity looks like.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 29 June 2026
  • The only thing that does exist is the divinity of all of us.
    G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Aug. 2025
  • He would be lit from within, and lit from below and all lit up on fire with divinity.
    SI.com, 13 May 2018
  • Greek myths feature dozens of chthonic divinities and forces.
    Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • To be sung, and now written, about was to achieve a kind of mythic divinity.
    Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The drinks were designed to wish good fortune, divinity and health.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Poke at the divinity, and see the human beings on the inside.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The finger of divinity touching your forehead may grant you an idea.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
  • This is hard news for the lame brains who think science is a divinity or an ideology.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 May 2020
  • If the devil is in the details than logic demands that there be space there for divinity as well.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The title comes from the nickname for the child who locals seem to think might be some sort of divinity in human form.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
  • No roughhousing, though — a childhood scrape could have cost her her divinity.
    New York Times, 15 July 2022
  • When a goddess finally shows up, the presence of divinity blazes off the page.
    Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
  • These are the schools of divinity, law, medicine, pharmacy and dentistry.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Hazzikostas spent endless evenings getting blown to bits by this grim divinity, and his guild had little progress to show for it.
    Luke Winkie, Wired, 27 Feb. 2021
  • And there's a sense of divinity or spirit being in nature itself.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Some call it empathy; others believe there is divinity in the man.
    Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Genitals shackling, black over black in the temple of take, the supine divinity.
    Francine J. Harris, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
  • Yet a handful of the astronauts did report feelings of divinity while on the moon.
    Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 16 July 2019
  • With or without a divinity, the emotions are the most human of all, the effects touching.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Perhaps the end of something is the beginning of a new pursuit of divinity.
    Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The mattress sale’s fleeting nature is, arguably, the source of its divinity.
    Mary Gulino, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
  • They’ve been tied to strength, divinity, and sacred energy.
    Essence, 21 Aug. 2025
  • For all Madame Gallard’s talk of God, there is no room for divinity amid such clutter.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • God does, and Jesus dies on the cross, confirming his divinity as God's son.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 7 June 2018
  • Some experts believe the emperor uses it to sleep with the sun goddess to gain divinity.
    Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Then her husband died, and Fowler decided, at age 60, to go to divinity school.
    Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 29 July 2017
  • The divinity which is the science of painting transmutes the painter’s mind into a resemblance of the divine mind.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019

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