How to Use metaphysical in a Sentence

metaphysical

adjective

• Philosophers tend to think of time in terms of the metaphysical.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 8 May 2020
• If horse racing is the sport of kings and baseball is the sport of our youth, then golf is the sport of the metaphysical world.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2018
• And for me, this book was also a gift to me, to be able to bring them back to me in some kind of metaphysical way.
  — Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• That may be true in a legal sense and a metaphysical one.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
• But the DuBois idea seems a little too metaphysical and pat.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• On his first walk with Chrissy through the metaphysical realm, Satan points out a figure by the side of the road.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2022
• Our music kind of tries to embody that in a sort of metaphysical way.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2020
• But there can’t help but be a metaphysical aspect to the use of sunlight in a story like this one.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 June 2021
• No clue, but props to Stone for finding such a cool metaphysical niche.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
• For the island of Ireland, the problem was close to metaphysical.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2019
• The result is less a puzzle box than a messy metaphysical punk opera, for worse and for better.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• But the cost of rescuing Cash from the metaphysical fog has been to turn him into a plaster saint.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
• Along the way, an array of real-life and metaphysical dots emerged for Byrd to connect.
  — Orange County Register, 31 Mar. 2017
• On May 24th the Church of England will launch an app for the Alexa platform that allows users to pose metaphysical queries to the speaker on their kitchen counter.
  — The Economist, 23 May 2018
• This is true in both the physical and metaphysical realms.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• Through all Thomas’s pages ran a breeze of terror, arising in the metaphysical world; the air was sinister.
  — Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• Robyn, these hats aren’t doing the metaphysical concept of hats justice — Karen has nothing to do with it!
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• Living seems to me a metaphysical mistake on the part of matter, an oversight on the part of inaction.
  — Michael Robbins, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• The movie dramatizes metaphysical revenge on a world—or half a world—out of whack, on men who only want a woman’s body.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• Looking for even more inspiration on how to dress for the day things get metaphysical?
  — Vogue, 8 Aug. 2019
• The overall impression left by most of Neumann’s pictures is that of being lost in a kind of metaphysical fog.
  — Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader, 26 Jan. 2018
• Throughout the movie, in what amounts to a metaphysical sleight-of-hand trick, Van Peebles turns his lack of budget into an economy of means.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Sep. 2021
• In the novel the losses are metaphysical, with only loose connections to the real world.
  — Nanjala Nyabola, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2022
• Was his sojourn with Lily a fantasy, or a dream, or perhaps a metaphor for the metaphysical journey his brother is about to take?
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
• Sin, separates one from God, and in that metaphysical sense one is exiled.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• His passion becomes a mere pretext for the movie’s metaphysical twist.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
• Haigh always thought of All of Us Strangers as a metaphysical expansion of Weekend.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2023
• And, over the past two decades, this concept has taken the metaphysical community by storm.
  — Aliza Kelly, Allure, 24 Dec. 2021
• Before dishing the dirt, and talking about the trials and tribulations of John Travolta, Schrader went all metaphysical.
  — Alan Friedman, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2024
• My family's history has been largely silent for a century, so tracing my heritage back nearly 200 years and visiting the houses that once held their lives was nothing short of a metaphysical experience.
  — Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024