How to Use saintly in a Sentence

saintly

adjective

• Many of these are of a morbid cast, relics in the saintly sense.
  — Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• The Newsweek and Rolling Stone covers mocked up with a halo and a saintly glow?
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
• No, not the evil Trump, but the saintly public sector CDC, the technocrats.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 18 May 2020
• Macdissi brings charm and warmth to the saintly Wally, though gets a bit too cloying in the process.
  — Gary Goldstein, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2020
• To them, ditching booze was a way to protect the sanctity of the saintly Protestant home.
  — Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, 17 Jan. 2020
• And that's not even including the saintly mamas who have died to light a fire under their sons (hi, Thor and Shang-Chi).
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 July 2022
• The saintly glow of the fruit is indistinguishable from the one on the face of Zurbarán’s St. Francis on the painting next to this, or rather to that on the skull to which the saint kneels.
  — Jonathan Gold, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• But there’s one thing that even the most saintly eateries haven’t quite figured out yet, and that’s packaging.
  — Magdalena Puniewska, Bon Appetit, 8 Sep. 2017
• In her mind, the best solution would be to divide the body into relics, as has happened with saintly relics in the Roman Catholic Church for centuries.
  — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• The dancers are not at their best when they are shown, in one scene, as shackled or required to maintain a saintly disposition while posed as if on the cross.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
• Madonna sings through a vocoder as Blanco thrashes around a circle of judges, newly dressed in saintly garb.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 7 June 2019
• And if so, what was wrong in wishing my saintly, gentle, favourite teacher a happy Valentine’s Day?
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 13 Feb. 2020
• Besides, think of the saintly people who clean public restrooms.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2017
• Flanked by lawyers, framed by a halo-like clock just above her head, Christine Blasey Ford becomes a saintly image fit for a Raphael painting.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
• Those looking for saintly intercession can choose from a pantheon of holy helpers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022
• After midnight Mass at a nearby church that holds the saintly relics of an ancestor, the family will return home for panettone and a glass of fine Marsala wine.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2018
• One piece of saintly praise: The filmmakers deserve credit for their commitment to a PG rating.
  — Peter Hartlaub, kansascity, 18 Jan. 2018
• In Warsaw, the murderers hanged an important woman, the wife of an elder, a saintly person.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• One brave mom, in her attempt to share her saintly dedication to the gifting arts, posted her mega-tree on Instagram.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 11 Dec. 2015
• Not even having a team leader with the saintly qualities of quarterback Tim Tebow could keep the bail bondsman business in Gainesville from booming.
  — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 22 June 2017
• Catholic masses in the all-white- and-gold marble chapel one Friday a month and every religious saintly holiday.
  — ELLE, 6 July 2022
• As songwriters go, Van Zandt has long been idolized by musical peers, who refer to him as bordering on the saintly.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 10 May 2021
• The life that Alharthi describes is one of almost saintly self-abnegation.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• For the last 60 years, it’s been hard to see Joan Baez as anything other than a saintly figure, or certainly, at the least, a beatifically placid one.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Feb. 2023
• But Christians believed in the power of the martyrs and, later, other saintly persons to intercede on their behalf with God.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 4 May 2022
• The #MeToo movement isn’t filled with saintly women and individual bad men.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• All this might make the movie sound like an unusually zany albeit topical riff on the holy-fool narrative, the tale of a beatific soul who is too stupid and too saintly for this world.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
• Even children were, and still can be, approved for saintly veneration.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2022
• Older Rita is still self-possessed but, as written, there’s a distance that smooths the edges, turns her into a saintly figure and saps the character of the charge that keeps someone married for decades.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
• Francis acknowledged Thursday that there were plenty of competent, loyal and even saintly people who work in the Holy See.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024