How to Use spiritual in a Sentence

spiritual

1 of 2 adjective

• France will always be the spiritual home of wine lovers.
• Doctors must consider the emotional and spiritual needs of their patients.
• I regularly consult our pastor about spiritual matters.
• The Romantic composers saw Beethoven as a spiritual ancestor.
• Berry starts out with her own attempt to make the wolf her spiritual kin.
  — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• Big Love attempts to liven things up with a rap that goes off the spiritual rails.
  — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• Having a large breed dog in such a spiritual place like Japan, with all its temples and shrines, is unique.
  — Rachel Chang and Thomas Panek, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2024
• The night-side of our lives—that is, the occult, the spiritual world—continues to fascinate me.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• What was supposed to be just a press trip felt like a spiritual retreat.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
• There are spiritual lessons in the somber mood, and a sudden absence of music and flowers from mass.
  — Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 29 Mar. 2023
• The National Day of Prayer, said Rosenberg, would bring spiritual fruit to the hostages, soldiers, those who mourn — and the nation as a whole.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
• The Great star plays River, a spiritual woman engaged to the youngest Lafayette sibling.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
• And for a full two years prior to that, I had been flung into a spiritual awakening.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 14 Oct. 2023
• The clip shows a peaceful start as the women take part in a spiritual meditation.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
• Williams sings of the struggle between pain-numbing vices and the urge for some kind of spiritual resolution.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2023
• Aries March 21 – April 19 Your spiritual and creative sides can support your goals now.
  — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
• There was a conversation going on with the band that was spiritual.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
• Now, the spiritual successor to her 2002 breakout album This Is Me...
  — Chris Malone Méndez, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• But the man who served as their spiritual lodestar, who strode with purpose through their dreams and desires, operated in the Elizabethan years.
  — Chris Vognar, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• If such steps aren't taken, there could be health and spiritual consequences.
  — The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
• Shields has a spiritual side that many scientists shun.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 11 July 2023
• In the movie, Priscilla’s pleas result in Elvis burning his collection of spiritual texts.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 Nov. 2023
• Moss, a chaplain, had spent the year working as the spiritual adviser to Phillip Hancock, a death row inmate in Oklahoma.
  — Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• The building was a focus for the community’s social and spiritual life.
  — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
• Its anti-heartbreak, pro-labor, loosely spiritual jams are made for the softest, loungiest club or doing the wavy-arm dance on your couch.
  — Pitchfork, 12 Dec. 2023
• With much spiritual guidance and prayer, my family and I have made a decision for my future.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 11 July 2023
• Its pastors preach a different approach to spiritual life, one that’s plain to see this time of year, during the holiest days on the Christian calendar.
  — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
• The mental and spiritual satisfaction that comes from knowing what good food is and how food can be good for our minds and hearts is irreplaceable.
  — TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
• The self-help author and former spiritual adviser to Oprah Winfrey is the first Democrat to formally enter the race.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• The resort offers guests meditation and yoga to do a spiritual detox and reset.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 12 Apr. 2024

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spiritual

2 of 2 noun

• The congregation sang hymns and spirituals.
• The song’s origins have been traced to spirituals at the turn of the 20th century.
  — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• The score to this work mixes blues, spirituals, garage rock and more.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• The rest of their 80-minute recital at the DuSable Museum will hold arias, songs and spirituals.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• DuPont will present a recital of art songs, spirituals and gospels by both female and male black composers on June 26.
  — Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2019
• The crowd lit candles as someone played a recording of an old spiritual.
  — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
• To have been in an audience who had never before heard the harmonies of a spiritual.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• His church members sang Southern spirituals and gospel songs, auctioned off a quilt, and raised around $2,000 for their sister city.
  — Kim Cross, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2011
• Meacham and McGraw move as gingerly through the spirituals of the Civil War years as two white men might be expected to.
  — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
• His church members sang Southern spirituals and gospel songs, auctioned off a quilt, and raised around $2,000 for their sister city.
  — Kim Cross, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2015
• And many of the songs sung are rooted in African American spirituals passed down from enslaved ancestors.
  — Andrew J. Yawn, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2020
• The troupe’s fresh take on the art form — drawing on blues, spirituals and gospel for inspiration — changed the perception of American dance.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018
• All three actors have rich voices that fill the small theater with the sounds of African American spirituals and civil rights anthems.
  — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
• Mavis was just a kid when The Staples Singers got their start performing spirituals at Chicago churches, then made their name touring and recording as a gospel act.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2017
• Plus their wide-ranging repertoire includes blues, rags, spirituals, and more.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• Later, more sparks fly when the two argue over whether African-American spirituals functioned as coded maps to freedom for slaves.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• As the night’s conductor of spirituals, Solange made self-sabotage and pain sound so bittersweet.
  — Adelle Platon, Billboard, 10 Nov. 2019
• The work merges Black spirituals with ballet and contemporary dance.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• Elvis did the traditional Black spiritual as part of a gospel medley for his late ’60s network comeback special.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 June 2022
• The spirituals, which arose from the misery of slavery, were then resurrected, by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, from the postbellum period into the turn of the century.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
• Expect a program ranging from Bach to black spirituals.
  — Amy Wang, OregonLive.com, 13 July 2017
• Indeed, Ailey’s 1960 masterwork to gospel songs and spirituals will close each of the company’s three programs in Costa Mesa.
  — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The New Moon also regularly hosts small events and offers one-on-one spiritual and soul coaching classes.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2020
• The program includes songs of the Easter Season and Pentecost as well as spirituals, folk songs and patriotic hymns.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2019
• Though the score evokes spirituals, jazz, folk songs, ragtime and Dixieland, the elements of musical theater came through most strongly in this performance, led with brio by Stephen Lord.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2018
• With Bob, there is a kind of ascetic renunciation in his suffering that borders on the spiritual.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2022
• The group moved slowly throughout the campus, singing spirituals and observing a moment of silence for the three people killed during the violent weekend.
  — Megan Friedman, Esquire, 17 Aug. 2017
• Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931, the daughter of a welder and a homemaker who encouraged her to read literature and taught her folktales and spirituals at home.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2019
• Strictly observant Jews fast from sundown to sundown to transcend the physical and focus on the spiritual.
  — Bert Stratton, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
• Anchored by ethereal strings and the driving melodies of Negro spirituals, Fantasia croons lyrics that beautifully capture the arc and triumph of both Celie and herself.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023

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