How to Use spirit in a Sentence

spirit

1 of 2 noun

• Yoga is very healthy for both body and spirit.
• My father was a proud spirit.
• We will all miss her generous spirit.
• Some religions believe that the same spirit is reincarnated many times in different bodies.
• That’s just wrong and not in the good spirit of regifting.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• Clarke had seen the image, and was drawn to Mahlangu’s spirit.
  — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 29 Feb. 2024
• Keith seemed too weak to stand for the bulk of the night, but his spirits were high, and his voice was strong.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024
• And the only way to release their spirits … was to kill the bodies.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 13 May 2023
• Celebrity guests try to persuade the Grinch to warm up and embrace the spirit of the season.
  — William Earl, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
• The spirit of that and the joy of that seemed really important to the nature of this movie.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
• But that didn’t mean Foxx wasn’t part of the season six premiere — at least in spirit.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 24 May 2023
• This is exactly the spirit in which this movie should be made.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• After all, the best gifts are those that keep on giving, just like the spirit of the holidays.
  — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
• The ovoo is a monument to the spirits of the natural world, known here as nagas and savdags.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• There's an open bar with beer, wine, and top-shelf spirits, according to the website.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2024
• Tyler, the Creator is bringing fashion and the holiday spirit across the globe.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2023
• There could be no closed loop, nothing buried between him and the people who lifted him up and kept his spirit high in the dog days of camp.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• Guests can bring their own wines or spirits to drink alongside at no extra charge.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• Each rerelease stays true to the colorful spirit of the past, but comes shaded with the wisdom of hindsight.
  — Raisa Bruner, TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
• Quavo said the album — which was first teased back in May — is fueled by his late nephew and partner-in-rhyme’s spirit.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2023
• Even then, the Canadian resident didn't let the sad news dull her spirits.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
• But the director also notes that his approach to the adaptation had more to do with the spirit of Liu’s work than the details.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
• Get into the holiday spirit with these gifts for teens and tweens starting at $11.
  — Terri Peters, Parents, 13 Dec. 2023
• At its heart, the spirit of MADE is a call for collaboration.
  — Ali Shahbaz, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Barely one week has passed since the first day of fall, but is already feeling the holiday spirit.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• The countless lives he’s touched, healed, helped and saved will continue his spirit and legacy.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• Chalk it up to good sense and, if the holiday spirit moves you, the governor’s integrity as well.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• There’s nothing like a three-day weekend to lift the spirits — especially when there are juicy deals to shop.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
• The spirits here are clearly the star of the show, but the Vault offers a minimal food service to accompany its quaffs.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2023
• But while no one will mistake James McCartney for his father with this single, the song shares his affable spirit.
  — Neda Ulaby, NPR, 17 Apr. 2024

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spirit

2 of 2 verb

• The singer was spirited away in a limousine after the show.
• Some of the funds had been spirited away to other accounts.
• But the forces of Heaven do the lifting, the heavy work, the spiriting away, the catching up of the body in the air.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• By the end, David is begging for an HBO rep to spirit him away.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2024
• The session dragged on for 10 hours and was, at times, spirited.
  — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
• But a network of friends spirited him onto a boat and raced him up the coast.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Seems like those ghosts don’t get much of a chance to spirit away an everyday car.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• The following day, a taxi arrives to spirit me away from Shiguchi.
  — Danielle Demetriou, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2023
• The drunker and more spirited the fans the better as far as he is concerned.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• Garth Brooks will bring his country spirit back to the big city this October.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2020
• Lyra, one hero, has just been born, and spirited away for her safety to a nunnery in Godstow.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
• She and her sister Iris, then 11 years old, were placed on a train and spirited away to the English countryside.
  — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• Years later, the sound of a familiar voice can spirit us back to a tumultuous time of teen angst and heartbreaks.
  — Vulture, 3 Apr. 2023
• Unannounced, Crocker hired a 70-foot schooner and a rowdy crew of sailors to spirit her across the Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands.
  — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2018
• Indeed it was limited but spirited Hungary who had the better chances for most of the game.
  — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2018
• Smith, the Patriots’ backbone at center back, made a spirited run forward with the ball that went for naught.
  — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2023
• When Ochoa was 9 months old, her mother paid a smuggler to spirit them from Mexico.
  — Adam Geller, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2018
• Someone had already attacked the site and had spirited away a sizable amount.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2018
• In countywide races the competition for the top cop job looks to be spirited.
  — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2019
• The guard allegedly spirited her away and became her lover, only to die later in a street brawl.
  — Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 25 Apr. 2017
• Translate yourself to spirit; Be present on your journey.
  — Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• To help support themselves in their new lives, refugees could sell the glamorous belongings that the Cook sisters managed to spirit away.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019
• When the door burst open and several people rush in, grab her, and forcefully spirit her into their van.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• Hire an airport concierge: Blacklane isn't the only service that will spirit you through the terminal.
  — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
• The marchers in Hartford in 1982 were middle-class, nicely dressed, high spirited, mostly young, white men and women.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
• Adding to the intrigue, the surviving passengers appeared to have been spirited away from the lake within hours of the accident.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• The next morning, Russia struck and Zelenskyy was spirited to his bunker.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• The tempo was fast and the session was spirited, including the defensive back working against the receivers one-on-one.
  — cleveland, 29 July 2023
• The goddess spirited her away to be a priestess in the land of the Taurians, where the local cult of Artemis sacrifices any Greeks unlucky enough to get shipwrecked.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• Realizing that there was no way to spirit Marshall secretly to the end planned for him, the officers gave up and returned to the highway.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2021

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