How to Use emanation in a Sentence

emanation

noun

• The right to privacy was formed out of such emanations.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2014
• More than four decades later, the record still feels like an emanation from another plane.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Is Electra an emanation of Orestes’ desire to kill his mother?
  — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• Two emanations of the holy city of Los Angeles; two distinct transits across the firmament.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2023
• The building’s pores exude sweaty emanations of New York’s downtown art and poetry scene.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• Drummer Tim Wyskida bashed those riffs down from the sky while bassist James Plotkin accented with more subterranean emanations.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 25 May 2023
• To hear the music as an emanation from above amplified its meaning in an uncanny way: the voice in the firmament was broken, lamenting.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
• This felt like an emanation from the California of the nineteen-twenties, when spiritual seekers settled in towns like Ojai and tried to start anew.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
• As the two descended to the sidewalk, Thread emanations rose from half-a-dozen half-dazed dancers and their Volunteer captives like steam or transparent smoke or heat, invisible to the eye but easy enough to detect with the right senses.
  — Nisi Shawl, Slate Magazine, 22 Feb. 2017
• Thus, the Third Reich was the emanation of a collective as well as an individual’s imagination.
  — Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Slate Magazine, 14 Mar. 2017
• Seen in hovering profile, Duke Ellington seems as much emanation as man, an emissary from a musical realm DeCarava grants us entry to.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2022
• Interspersed with radio emissions from stars, the astronomers were surprised to find the characteristic heat emanations from some six million solar masses of dust.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
• In the medieval period, people interpreted the universe as a creation of the divine and all its manifestations as emanations of divine will.
  — The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
• But despite strenuous efforts by McCarthy and other Republicans to pretend the chant was some sort of spontaneous emanation from the crowd, Trump’s followers had only been echoing his own words.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• Billowing burnouts and thunderous emanations are standard equipment on the Challenger SRT siblings.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Sep. 2017
• But the green ooze emanation prompted another round of cleanup, the EPA spending more than $3.1 million before returning the site to state regulatory authority early last year.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2022
• Titian was, however, uncommonly alive to the softly pulsing, mortal emanations of other people.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• This is one of numerous subplots Melo weaves together in a script which leaves several loose ends carelessly dangling but does feel like an organic emanation of the particular place and culture depicted.
  — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2018
• For example, a particular strain of moderate to liberal Christianity attempts to reach a common ground with Islam predicated on the mutual understanding that both traditions understand the other to be an emanation from a common divine source.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2012
• Last year, a group of researchers reported findings at the Crypto 2018 conference in Santa Barbara, California that ultrasonic emanations from the internal components of computer monitors could reveal the information being depicted on the screen.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2019
• And Wixey notes that existing research on detrimental human exposure to acoustic emanations has found potential effects that are both physiological and psychological.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2019
• Additional equipment and improvements will be incorporated as necessary (test-fix-retest methodology) to ensure systems are adequately shielded, bonded, and/or separated to eliminate any compromising emanations.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2008

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024