Sample Sentences for

sublime

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

We found a sublime seaside bed and breakfast.

It's a simple and sublime idea!

Some people who have been brought back from the far edge of starvation, though, report that near the end the hunger vanishes, the terrible pain dissolves, and the suffering is replaced by a sublime euphoria, a sense of calm accompanied by transcendent mental clarity.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Hawat, unfortunately, had a master whose resources were poor, one who could not elevate a Mentat to the sublime peaks of reasoning that are a Mentat's right.  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

"Sublimity," Hauptmann says, panting, "you know what that is, Pfennig?"  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

At first piecemeal, then point-blank, he let his attention be drawn to a little scene that was being acted out sublimely, unhampered by writers and directors and producers, five stories below the window and across the street.  (source) J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, 1957

I have been permitted to touch the face and costume of Miss Ellen Terry as she impersonated our ideal of a queen; and there was about her that divinity that hedges sublimest woe.†  (source) Helen Keller, Story of My Life, 1903

Nothing more solemn than a tear—sublimer; And I would not by weeping turn to laughter The grave emotion that a tear engenders!†  (source) Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, 1897

She has only sublimities and vastitudes and water and leaves.†  (source) Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931

Though he was not a fortune-hunter, the possibility that Lucetta had been sublimed into a lady of means by some munificent testament on the part of this relative lent a charm to her image which it might not otherwise have acquired.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1886

and of the care and woe That we had in our matters subliming, And in amalgaming, and calcining Of quicksilver, called mercury crude?†  (source) Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1350

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky —so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

With sublime stubbornness, she refused to see that the project could not succeed.

"Z," Aech said, slapping me on the back, "you are an evil, sublime genius!"  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Cheever waits placidly, the sublime official, dutiful.  (source) Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953

Only that I had to move toward it with a sublime and doomed instinct.  (source) Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, 1976

No indeed, the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.  (source) Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952

There was no place for words in his sublime misery.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

Everyone in the Glass family—Zooey certainly not least—was familiar with this sort of non-sequitur from Mrs. Glass. It bloomed best, most sublimely, in the middle of an emotional flareup of just this kind.  (source) J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, 1957

Marie lowered the phone into its cradle, a sublime panic passing through her.  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986

The lethal chess game was not only supremely intricate, it was sublimely intimate.  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum, 1990

I think it's this sense of sublime order that offends you, Will.  (source) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

"Atbash is sublimely appropriate," Teabing said.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

She was one of those people who are born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengeance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism…  (source) Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits, 1986

Lying there, I realized that as a boy my father had never punished me severely except once—and then only because of a crime for which I sublimely deserved reprisal.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976