How to Use providential in a Sentence

providential

adjective

• It seemed providential that he should arrive at just that moment.
• We had made a providential escape.
• Evening advances, and the sky turns a providential pink.
  — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
• For Menendez and his wife, who plays piano for the church, the move to Anchorage seems providential, just like the rest of the story.
  — Author: Lex Treinen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2021
• For Sangeeta Rajesh, a bout of illness in 2014 turned out to be providential.
  — Mallik Thatipalli, Quartz India, 13 Nov. 2019
• On the way to Missouri, a providential thing happened in the ketchup aisle at a Walmart somewhere in Arkansas.
  — Southern Living, 12 July 2011
• On the way to Missouri, a providential thing happened in the ketchup aisle at a Walmart somewhere in Arkansas.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• By January, you may be showered with rewards for a job well done and could find your life greatly improved by a providential stroke of good luck.
  — oregonlive, 29 June 2020
• Over the decades since Fleming’s death, his followers have persisted with this providential view of things.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Do believers truly plead with God to alleviate some of the suffering, to be an instrument of His love and providential care in the midst of it?
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 19 Aug. 2019
• Here is a white man whose whiteness fails to yield any providential good fortune, and a sojourner in the wilderness of himself confronting the cipher of the universe with religious dread.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• But one place art can come from is a life full of forces-difficult-to-make-fit-together, a life that finds, in art, a providential instrument for reconciling the jagged bits.
  — Richard Ford, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2016
• And so too is the perennial hopefulness symbolized by Ishmael’s having survived the wreckage of the Pequod and being rescued by the providential arrival of the Rachel.
  — Daniel Ross Goodman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2019
• Henson narrowly avoided that harsh fate through a highly providential twist of events: Riley’s nephew Amos, the young man tasked with selling Henson, contracted malaria.
  — Jared Brock, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
• But it's been especially so since 1989, when the collapse of our superpower rival inspired providential reveries of a unipolar world led, largely unimpeded, by the U.S. and its allies.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 9 Dec. 2020
• In this providential outlook, all events, even seemingly evil ones, ultimately forward a story of progress, and the great must at times rise above ordinary mortality with the promise of vindication by history.
  — Priya Satia, The New Republic, 20 May 2022
• His competitive breakthrough, however, was as providential and unexpected as the broken board that introduced him to surfing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024