Sample Sentences fortranscendent (editor-reviewed)
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Hearing the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah was a transcendent experience for me.transcendent = beyond the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
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She is a transcendent figure in women's athletics.transcendent = surpassing usual limits of excellence
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Seeing the Grand Canyon was a transcendent experience for me.transcendent = beyond the ordinary range of human experience
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Visiting Yosemite was a transcendent experience.
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It was a transcendent event in my life.
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And then he invented a new life for himself, taking up residence at the ragged margin of our society, wandering across North America in search of raw, transcendent experience. (source)transcendent = beyond the ordinary
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Dissonance and harmonic tension slowly resolved into warm chords—the sound was transcendent. (source)transcendent = surpassing usual limits of excellence
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It was an experience of transcendence. (source)transcendence = beyond the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
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A vision—a transcendently seductive vision of a Mexican girl arose before her.† (source)
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When I look down from this transcendency, how beautiful are even the crumbled relics of bread!† (source)
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And there is often a sense of transcendent claustrophobia, of a shortening horizon, and always a sense of struggle against the tyranny of circumstance—often depicted as a never named sinister male figure who looms. (source)transcendent = beyond the ordinary
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From this ever-changing world arose the Empire of the Scholars, strongest among men, dedicated to their creed: Through knowledge, transcendence. (source)transcendence = surpassing usual limits of excellence
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The inspiration—I can call it by no other name—was that I felt how voluntarily, how transcendently, I MIGHT.† (source)
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Such terms are only clues to the transcendency.† (source)
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This is a valley of ashes — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. (source)transcendent = beyond the ordinary range of human experience
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I felt myself rising, light-headed with transcendence, an overflowing fountain.† (source)
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