How to Use marvel in a Sentence
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Our Harlem Knight had all of the urban skills that make a marvel of a black man.
— Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023 -
This is the third film on the list centered on culinary marvels.
— Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023 -
The pacing, playing, and singing of the outer movements were a marvel.
— David Weininger, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022 -
Spiraling up from the living room, the marvel of steel, resin, and glass hints at what lies above.
— Kathleen Hackett, ELLE Decor, 16 Dec. 2022 -
The result is a marble marvel that’s a bit more modern.
— Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Jan. 2024 -
But the fact Detroit Lions rookie was on the field at all Sunday was a bit of a marvel.
— Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2024 -
At the garden stand, people exchange recipe ideas and marvel at the number of jalapenos.
— Grace Hollars, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2022 -
Now, as in the 1960s, Starr’s drumming remains a marvel of taste and concision.
— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023 -
Leytham seethed as Inez, her rich mezzo a marvel to hear.
— Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2023 -
Here are the best things to do and places to stay in the architectural marvel hidden in Jalisco’s jungle.
— Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2023 -
Look for things that get cheaper—that’s the only way to clear the smoke and get new marvels into global consumer hands.
— Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023 -
The marvel is that this new hybrid face moves in real time on your screen, the sleight of hand nearly undetectable.
— Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Apr. 2023 -
His recovery is a marvel of medicine, chance and his own spirit.
— Constant Méheut, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023 -
My first impulse is to agree that this is an unalloyed marvel.
— Steven Levy, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023 -
There’s the obligatory scene where Wang-Wang shows up at a house party, the youngest kid in the room, and marvels at strangers making out and getting drunk around him.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024 -
These cables, only about as thick as a garden hose, are high-tech marvels.
— Jeremy Anderberg, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2023 -
The film was re-edited and dubbed in order to become the Oscar-winning marvel the world embraced.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023 -
Here’s how to catch Thursday’s lunar marvel, including where to look and when.
— Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023 -
Berlin, of course, was a musical marvel, writing more than 1,500 songs in his lifetime.
— Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2022 -
Part of the marvel of a piece like Terce is the rigor beneath its ecstatic surface.
— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024 -
The cup was rebuilt, a seeming marvel of scholarship and luck, as well as a window into a lost world.
— Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023 -
At one-third of a millimeter in size, the head of the screw is dwarfed by the rice grain, a powerful reminder of the marvels of microengineering.
— Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2023 -
That’s why the Nespresso Vertuo machine is such a marvel.
— Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 12 May 2023 -
Nor will her sister, Venus, a marvel at 42, who withdrew because of an injury.
— Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2023 -
During the day, marvel at the place where two deserts—the Mojave and the Colorado—come together in a landscape rich with cactus, coyotes, and the park’s namesake tree.
— Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 16 Dec. 2022 -
Fast, intelligent and as small as your thumb, hummingbirds are a marvel of a bird.
— National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023 -
The film as a whole, while a technological marvel with a breathtaking world, is just 🤣.
— Lauren Huff, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2022 -
Back when having Harper in the lineup still seemed like a medical marvel.
— Dan Gelston, ajc, 22 June 2023 -
And that’s not to mention those who are enamored of the mechanical marvels of Indiana Jones or James Bond movies.
— Jane Margolies, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024 -
Watching what Margot created with that character was such a marvel to behold.
— Keaton Bell, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2024
- The doctors marveled that anyone could recover so quickly.
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In the carousel, the healthcare providers marveled at his creations.
— Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023 -
And to have four tracks in the top 50 on this new chart is something to marvel at as well.
— Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2023 -
The elder artist marveled about how the new star worked the 360-degree stage at the New Orleans date.
— Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024 -
Creative rest This involves marveling at the beauty of the world.
— Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2023 -
But Galileo was hardly the first human to marvel at the Northern Lights.
— Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023 -
Prepare to marvel at the sprawling live oaks wrapped with white lights.
— Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2023 -
Researchers marvel at how much LLMs are able to learn from text.
— George Musser, Scientific American, 11 May 2023 -
Or come to marvel at the district's neon lights, dangling lanterns, and dozens of gold stores on the iconic Yaowarat Road.
— Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2023 -
The SpaceX engineers marveled at the video, which was captured by a camera on board the drone ship.
— Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023 -
Wentz, who did most of the speaking for the group, marveled that the band had managed to sell out the Sacramento arena.
— Nathaniel Levine, Sacramento Bee, 4 Mar. 2024 -
Swift’s boots Swifties marveled at how Swift walked onto the field turf in her stiletto boots.
— Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024 -
One of the perks of living on a boat in the middle of the ocean is the ability to marvel at some of the most stunning sunsets on Earth.
— Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024 -
During the game, players and coaches marveled at the sight of fans seated even in the highest rows.
— Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024 -
Some days, Magno would stop and marvel at the size of their barge, weighed with thousands of tons of ivory-colored earth.
— Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 28 July 2023 -
There’s a parking lot, kayak launch and plenty of places to stop and marvel at the steel structure overhead.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023 -
The connection came from marveling at the age and how furniture was made then.
— Alexis E. Barton, Washington Post, 11 May 2023 -
Miller said, the boy marveled at the performers’ transformations and spent the rest of the day talking about it.
— Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 28 May 2023 -
On nearly every page of this book is a phrase or sentence to marvel over.
— Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023 -
Ahmed, who still marvels at LePage, is one of the batters who adapted.
— Zach Buchanan, New York Times, 28 July 2023 -
Kane marvels at how much Reggio comes to life when working.
— Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023 -
But there wasn’t just one moment when a caveman picked up a hunk of pyrite, struck it against a rock, and marveled at the resulting sparks.
— Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024 -
Guests can marvel at the waterfront views while sharing a meal in the spacious dining room.
— Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023 -
The sun came out briefly Sunday in greater L.A., where residents emerged to marvel at mountains to the north and east blanketed in white.
— CBS News, 27 Feb. 2023 -
Fans who caught glimpses of Riley during the game marveled at how grown up the tween looked, wearing her hair in long braids and dressed in a pink tie-dye hoodie.
— Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023 -
Tourists flock to the monument to marvel over its high arched ceilings and stunning mosaics.
— Jessica Roy, ELLE, 20 Jan. 2023 -
Washington State coach Kamie Ethridge, speaking to Gottlieb before the game, marveled at the crowd.
— Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024 -
Branner, the Venture Snowboards founder, still marvels at the impact of those meetings.
— Jonathan Weisman Benjamin Rasmussen, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023 -
It was considered an engineering marvel when it was built in the 1970s.
— Katie mettler, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024 -
The couple have piloted their sailboat underneath the bridge and marveled at its height.
— Peter Nicholas, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
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