How to Use divinity in a Sentence

divinity

noun

• Christians believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ.
• Poke at the divinity, and see the human beings on the inside.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 22 Apr. 2022
• 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
• He would be lit from within, and lit from below and all lit up on fire with divinity.
  — SI.com, 13 May 2018
• With or without a divinity, the emotions are the most human of all, the effects touching.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
• 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
• There’s not a single divinity, though the temple is topped by a statue of the Angel Moroni.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Samuel Mock, a 27-year-old divinity master's student, moved from Lexington to the Cincinnati area to be closer to the school.
  — James Pilcher, Cincinnati.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• The finger of divinity touching your forehead may grant you an idea.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
• Features works from the 10th to the 19th centuries that exemplify the worship of divinities called kami.
  — Greg Burnett, cleveland.com, 28 June 2019
• Between the manger and the cross there were a myriad of moments when the weight of divinity in the face of humanity may have felt like a hopeless thing to carry.
  — Essence, 22 Dec. 2020
• The mattress sale’s fleeting nature is, arguably, the source of its divinity.
  — Mary Gulino, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
• The master’s of divinity program is expanding rapidly, but the specifics of the future aren’t set in numbers, Bates said.
  — Marialuisa Rincon, Houston Chronicle, 18 May 2018
• Young, a handsome, clean-shaven 21-year-old divinity student, took a room at the Tremont House on Main Street and spent the next few days familiarizing himself with the town.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
• Our divinity is within and that can never be taken from us!
  — Sydney Scott, Essence, 6 Sep. 2019
• The religion is predicated on the idea that the eternal wisdom of the ages and of divinity cannot be confined to a single sacred book.
  — Shashi Tharoor, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
• Some experts believe the emperor uses it to sleep with the sun goddess to gain divinity.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• Features works from the 10th to the 19th centuries that exemplify the worship divinities call kami.
  — Greg Burnett, cleveland.com, 21 June 2019
• Those who believe in the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth tend to set Him above all earthly authorities.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• And there's a sense of divinity or spirit being in nature itself.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Oct. 2023
• The fetus has been left as a singular totem of life and divinity, to be protected, no matter the costs, even if everything else might fall.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 16 July 2022
• And, oh, what divinity exists in a novel that escapes the confines of the yellow wallpaper!
  — Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• No roughhousing, though — a childhood scrape could have cost her her divinity.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2022
• The two actors are locked in a battle for the future of Earth in which both call on the powers of ancient divinity — and the intrigue comes from the fact that Isaac’s characters are only fitfully aware of the rules of the game.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 29 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024