How to Use transcendental in a Sentence

transcendental

adjective

• The days flew by, a flurry of big flavors, bold wine and transcendental scenery.
  — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
• Unbeknownst to 8-year-old me and since that time, Glenn has made some of the most transcendental music.
  — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2019
• Standing in the back of the cave, with the lights off is almost a transcendental experience.
  — Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2016
• Sometimes the transcendental truth involves giving up the race and just sitting with your friends.
  — Devin, Longreads, 9 Sep. 2020
• The body of work is inspired by the energy and transcendental jazz music icons John and Alice Coltrane.
  — Shauna Stuart | [e-mail], al, 12 Aug. 2022
• Blade Runner,’ in its way, is an amazing movie, but its world-building packs more punch than its transcendental neo-noir noodlings.
  — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
• And these are not included in the transcendental toolkit.
  — Zach Baron, GQ, 18 May 2018
• Our favorite tall child is getting transcendental (and perhaps a beard).
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• In whatever way Sibelius achieved it, his final symphony can, in the right hands, have a transcendental power.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• And since the 19th Century, pi has been known to be transcendental, meaning that no combination of its powers can add up to a whole number.
  — Dan Rockmore /, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2018
• It could’ve been seen as an odd choice of song at the time, yet McLachlan’s ethereal voice and delivery were a perfect fit for the transcendental remix and a testament to Tiesto’s vision.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• There isn’t some big-name rock band, pop singer, or rapper leading the audience on a transcendental musical ride.
  — Tiffany Walden, Chicago Reader, 16 Feb. 2018
• Nailed through the forehead and into the brain, a spike of tellurium transports its recipient into a state of transcendental bliss.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022
• Thus death on the battlefield was a holy sacrifice with transcendental meaning.
  — Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021
• Thanks to this emphasis, many of Res Ipsa’s garments enjoy one-of-one status, as well as a more transcendental quality.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
• Seeing Nine Inch Nails in the '90s was this transcendental experience.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
• My transcendental Paul Revere had succeeded where a magic wand had failed.
  — Sloane Crosley, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
• The transcendental mystique of Mr. Obama’s persona runs through his aides’ memoirs like a leitmotif.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 5 July 2018
• Take your transcendental pick, the program seemed to say: Pärt’s purity or Eastman’s animistic urges.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• In The White Tiger, this transcendental wordlessness takes the form of two men realizing the absurdity of their situation—and their world.
  — Karthik Purushothaman, The New Republic, 2 Feb. 2021
• Del Rey is interested in the search for the transcendental, in that old American tradition, and, as in most national pastimes, there is ever room to sound a bit dippy.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
• On Tuesday night Dunham logged on to Instagram Live for a philosophical riff on the transcendental qualities of true love.
  — Andrea Park, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2018
• There should always be something transcendental—not just what people want, what is consumable.
  — John Hooper, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
• Each of a house’s windows seems to frame a different story, and a pool’s shimmering blue surface suggests depths both literal and transcendental.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• But if there is, indeed, something transcendental happening with Strength in Numbers, the Warriors better tap back into it.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 4 June 2019
• But how can such a vast and transcendental idea like data singularity be applied to business?
  — Santosh Sharan, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• That experience was transcendental and gave me a newfound appreciation for the wilds of nature and my own inner strength.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 May 2021
• Joining hands and leaning to the floor like a prayer circle of synchronized swimmers, Lorde sings to her group to begin their sun salutations and transcendental meditations.
  — Liam Hess, Allure, 19 Aug. 2021
• Despite borrowing from yogic and meditative practices, the transcendental Class is more like bootcamp set to emo music from the early aughts, like burpees done to the beat of angsty Snow Patrol songs.
  — Rachel Jacoby Zoldan, SELF, 16 Oct. 2017
• To the Inca, however, a sacrificial death may have been more transcendental than final.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024