How to Use transcendence in a Sentence

transcendence

noun

• And that’s part of the transcendence and the alchemy of it.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
• And so proud to have been a part of this transcendence.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 12 July 2022
• The point of The High Sierra isn’t to show us the author’s moments of transcendence.
  — Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Atlantic, 21 July 2022
• Dark, kind of grim, not all that catchy, full of flotsam, and full of transcendence.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• The film offers transcendence in the moments when Eviah lets go of his fear of the slide.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
• The Scorpio full moon is about transcendence and growth.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 26 Apr. 2024
• And that's when Lexa reveals that transcendence is a choice.
  — Dalene Rovenstine, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• In the scene, John (played by Taron Egerton) lifts the crowd in a moment of transcendence where everything clicked.
  — Foren Clark, CNN, 2 Jan. 2022
• But buried in these pieces is a kind of insistence on joy and transcendence.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• But what makes the songs work for me is that they were written in a spirit of joy, and a desire for transcendence.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2022
• The damp morning mist added a feeling of transcendence to a place of solemnity and majesty.
  — Deborah Doyle, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
• But the film has bursts of real transcendence despite that.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2021
• Transcendence is not a goal served by the pat conclusions that mar some of these stories.
  — Jess Zimmerman, New Republic, 13 June 2017
• To get a taste for the transcendence of Starship’s bagels, a slightly salty and malty plain bagel is anything but basic.
  — Amanda Albee, Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2023
• Is revenge the truest form of justice, or is true justice the transcendence of revenge?
  — New York Times, 13 May 2021
• Our time of transcendence may be rapidly coming to an end.
  — Sarah Blackwood, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• There is, after all, some virtue in having all of this transcendence gathered up in one place.
  — S.c. Gwynne, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2018
• No longer just somewhere to make a living, work has become a place to find purpose, and, yes, even transcendence.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2022
• The two start talking about Thomas Merton, a monk who wrote about finding transcendence.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2020
• And just like that, your moment of transcendence has been snuffed out, 21st century style.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
• And in the case of Canadian Bakin’s Q-Becco bagel sandwich, can even teeter on transcendence.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2020
• These are songs meant for arenas, spoken in a language of pop transcendence.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2021
• There’s always been this sense of the blues somehow related to trauma as well as a kind of transcendence.
  — Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• From a new travel series that finds meaning in the mundane, transcendence even where there isn’t any.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 26 Sep. 2023
• Awareness of its constructs and confines does not equal transcendence of them.
  — Brian Gresko, Longreads, 12 June 2018
• President-elect Biden has for years stressed the pursuit of transcendence.
  — Will Johnson, STAT, 13 Nov. 2020
• The key to achieving transcendence is acceptance of the fact that your shadow exists.
  — Svetlana Whitener, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• The man stands 12 feet tall, eyes closed in what might be pain or transcendence, chains falling off his outstretched arms, scars striped across his muscled back.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
• The graphic sits perfectly at a nexus of horror, punk and transcendence.
  — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2019
• But for Heidegger, there was no transcendence and no Platonic God -- no escape, in effect, from the cave.
  — Gregory Fried, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2014

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024