How to Use divinity in a Sentence

divinity

noun

• Christians believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ.
• Poke at the divinity, and see the human beings on the inside.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 22 Apr. 2022
• The title comes from the nickname for the child who locals seem to think might be some sort of divinity in human form.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
• He would be lit from within, and lit from below and all lit up on fire with divinity.
  — SI.com, 13 May 2018
• The drinks were designed to wish good fortune, divinity and health.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 14 Feb. 2018
• Though his life was spared, the philosopher who questioned the divinity of the moon found himself in exile in Lampsacus at the edge of the Hellespont.
  — David Warmflash, Smithsonian, 8 Oct. 2014
• For best results, make your divinity on a dry, cool day.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2023
• With or without a divinity, the emotions are the most human of all, the effects touching.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
• For all Madame Gallard’s talk of God, there is no room for divinity amid such clutter.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• When a goddess finally shows up, the presence of divinity blazes off the page.
  — Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
• Perhaps the end of something is the beginning of a new pursuit of divinity.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2024
• God does, and Jesus dies on the cross, confirming his divinity as God's son.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 7 June 2018
• There’s not a single divinity, though the temple is topped by a statue of the Angel Moroni.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• The divinity which is the science of painting transmutes the painter’s mind into a resemblance of the divine mind.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• Then her husband died, and Fowler decided, at age 60, to go to divinity school.
  — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 29 July 2017
• Genitals shackling, black over black in the temple of take, the supine divinity.
  — Francine J. Harris, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
• Yet a handful of the astronauts did report feelings of divinity while on the moon.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 16 July 2019
• Hazzikostas spent endless evenings getting blown to bits by this grim divinity, and his guild had little progress to show for it.
  — Luke Winkie, Wired, 27 Feb. 2021
• This is hard news for the lame brains who think science is a divinity or an ideology.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 May 2020
• These are the schools of divinity, law, medicine, pharmacy and dentistry.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
• Samuel Mock, a 27-year-old divinity master's student, moved from Lexington to the Cincinnati area to be closer to the school.
  — James Pilcher, Cincinnati.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• The finger of divinity touching your forehead may grant you an idea.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
• To Barbara Jenkins Bull, now Kraus, thank you for sharing your divinity with me.
  — Time Staff, Time, 25 Apr. 2018
• Features works from the 10th to the 19th centuries that exemplify the worship of divinities called kami.
  — Greg Burnett, cleveland.com, 28 June 2019
• Between the manger and the cross there were a myriad of moments when the weight of divinity in the face of humanity may have felt like a hopeless thing to carry.
  — Essence, 22 Dec. 2020
• The mattress sale’s fleeting nature is, arguably, the source of its divinity.
  — Mary Gulino, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
• The master’s of divinity program is expanding rapidly, but the specifics of the future aren’t set in numbers, Bates said.
  — Marialuisa Rincon, Houston Chronicle, 18 May 2018
• Young, a handsome, clean-shaven 21-year-old divinity student, took a room at the Tremont House on Main Street and spent the next few days familiarizing himself with the town.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
• Our divinity is within and that can never be taken from us!
  — Sydney Scott, Essence, 6 Sep. 2019
• What Davis summoned with Purlie, and what Leon’s revival makes joyously clear, is a different kind of divinity.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 June 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024