How to Use godlike in a Sentence

godlike

adjective

• Even the most graceful and godlike among us are prone to pratfalls.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
• Redford was thirty-three, and the film launched him on a godlike run.
  — Michael Hainey, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
• In the script, the creature is described as a godlike creature from the Amazon.
  — Ramin Zahed, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The Greeks warned about the danger of grasping for godlike powers.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2017
• On the eve of war, tributes are paid to the Dear Leader's silver tongue and godlike wisdom.
  — Melissa Locker, PEOPLE.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• At night this godlike figure would be sealed off from the rest of us by a black velvet curtain.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
• Art Modell's firing of the godlike Paul Brown was earth-shattering news in the sports world of that day.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 16 June 2017
• The first half of the fight was a chaotic battle of dodging whirlwinds and chipping away at a godlike being.
  — Michael Higham, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2023
• In taking on the full power of a sun, at the risk of his life, in order to forge a weapon to defeat Thanos, Thor displays his full godlike potential.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2018
• Freeman takes a godlike vantage point to narrate Chappelle walking alone through the desert.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The detective has to be godlike and sort of outside that realm, which is all to say that the detective always kind of operates according to the needs of the mystery.
  — Vulture, 23 Nov. 2022
• Regardless of LeBron James’ godlike performance, the result was still the same.
  — Courtney Cronin, The Mercury News, 5 June 2017
• The Dallas Cowboys, perhaps the most popular team in the country, are godlike in their remoteness.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
• This is a market in which one entity has a godlike view of everything that is happening, and everyone else is in the dark.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 28 July 2020
• Ready to watch your favorite superheroes get slaughtered while someone who wants to end half of all life has godlike abilities?
  — Graeme McMillan, WIRED, 24 Apr. 2018
• There’s just enough friction to give their banter some grit and take the edge of self-congratulation off these two godlike specimens.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
• Adults soldier on through crushing workloads and illness with the template of godlike athletes playing through injury in their minds.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2017
• One of the main purposes of universal schooling is to batter into young minds the godlike virtues of the Kim dynasty and the infallibity of the communist regime.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• North Korea’s media treats its top leaders like godlike figures and seldom mentions their health.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
• The central character of this Season Four episode is Kevin, a godlike alien who falls in love with a Federation colonist while traveling in human form.
  — cleveland.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• Audiences don’t cheer Wonder Woman because of her godlike speed, strength, and agility.
  — Fortune, 26 June 2017
• The three Kim dynasty leaders have been hailed as godlike figures by North Korean media and government.
  — Emma Sarran Webster, Teen Vogue, 25 Sep. 2017
• The three Kim dynasty leaders have been hailed as godlike figures by North Korean media and government.
  — Emma Sarran Webster, Teen Vogue, 9 Aug. 2017
• The first title presented him as an almost godlike figure, standing far above mere mortals.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 7 Apr. 2022
• He’s blessed and cursed with the bloodline of an Eikon, a magical godlike being who controls the elements, and there appears to be a struggle for power among several factions.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Part of the allure of When Breath Becomes Air is that it is written by a doctor, and not only a doctor, but a surgeon, a godlike (or at least magelike) figure in the eyes of many—including surgeons themselves.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 5 July 2017
• Who, or what, is the godlike entity that may have created a simulated universe?
  — Dan Falk, NBC News, 6 July 2019
• Chris Hemsworth famously packed on even more muscle to his already-godlike physique for the most recent Thor movie, a feat which involved physically grueling workouts and up to 10 meals a day.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
• His superhero-worthy body is sculpted to perfection, both Fisher and Ali's weapon of choice to showcase their godlike status belied by the frailty of the human underneath.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 June 2023
• Rather, there was something theatrical, something almost godlike about it.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023

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