Sample Sentences for
providence
(editor-reviewed)

providence as in:  divine providence

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    But I must say Providence was kind enough to burn down that old mausoleum of mine, I'm too old to keep it up—  (source)
    Providence = God's plan
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    PUTNAM: It is a providence the thing is out now!  (source)
    providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan
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    Sometimes, when Providence is not so kind, I...  (source)
    Providence = luck; or God's plan
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    Marilla did not look as if she thought Providence had much to do with the matter.  (source)
    Providence = God's intervention
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    He certainly viewed it as providential that when Socrates held forth in the agora and Jesus on the Mount, someone in the audience had the presence of mind to set their words down for posterity.†  (source)
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    But the block-long pile of death and destruction providentially spared the 48 children asleep in the Janet Home, virtually next door to the ill-fated apartment house.†  (source)
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    I have always considered it as one of God's special providences that Ellen screamed till she was carried back to jail.†  (source)
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    "I have settled it all;" and then Teddy's mother picked him up from the dust and hugged him, crying that he had saved Teddy from death, and Teddy's father said that he was a providence, and Teddy looked on with big scared eyes.  (source)
    providence = luck; or God's plan
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    Although she was not particularly religious, the mother liked to make her plots providential.†  (source)
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    Providentially, though, it was music that helped save her, as it had in the past.†  (source)
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    They are a kind of providences that you'll have to be pretty sparing of, Master Sam.†  (source)
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    If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom...  (source)
    providence = plan of God
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    She had not had time to be aware of him, except as of a providential comrade-in-competence; now she glanced at him with conscious attention.†  (source)
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