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Example sentences for "miracle"

Lexicographically close words:
mio; miquelets; mir; mirabile; mirabilia; miracles; miracolo; miracula; miraculis; miraculous
  1. It inundated the western slopes with a cascade of light; here and there on the crest glaciers flashed signals; far to the west the plain palpitated liquidly; and above, the sky domed very high, a miracle of pellucid azure.

  2. I had always supposed that a miracle was the supreme sensation of existence, the ultimate rapture of the soul.

  3. A miracle doesn't do anything to your soul for days and days and days.

  4. If anyone of my readers, after perusing this history, should be moved to ask the same question, now he knows why the notable miracle has not continued into our own time.

  5. For, in truth, Sara was a miracle of beauty.

  6. But the greatest miracle of all is that they who are not so born, who have been born to suffer the reverse side,-- should also think it to be all right.

  7. It was almost by a miracle that we managed yesterday--only fancy--yesterday!

  8. That such a miracle should be possible in extreme Eastern Asia is one more proof that there are no victories beyond the capacity of the human mind.

  9. After all, is it a greater miracle that consciousness should exist detached from matter than that it should exist attached to matter?

  10. Then he is the miracle of miracles, a second mystery superimposed on the first.

  11. Yet the latter miracle nobody doubts, except in the nursery games of the metaphysicians.

  12. It is, moreover, a miracle of strength and grace, a masterpiece of our Gothic Art in the matchless purity of its first bloom.

  13. By what miracle does it still hold together?

  14. Boys and girls possessing such talents are doomed, unless a miracle happens, for they have to start in life anyhow and anywhere.

  15. But it would be more than a miracle if tens of thousands of men could live this life without many of them becoming wastrels, for it is certain that a life of unemployment is dangerous to manhood, to character and health.

  16. I've been ill for the last ten days, it's only by a miracle I've escaped.

  17. Before it, before the miracle of the nativity and the divine episodes of the transfiguration, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, reverently the Occident has knelt.

  18. Elisha performed a miracle of the loaves, if he did not that of the fishes.

  19. The miracle of divine descent they were perhaps too practical to accept.

  20. It is the indisputable miracle of the Bible.

  21. Thousands and thousands of shoes are exposed there, and you think if all Turkey should become by some miracle barefoot to-morrow morning, it could be newly shod before nightfall from this bazaar alone.

  22. The monks solemnly tell us, that the invading infidels cut through this column, in the hope of bringing down the roof, but a miracle interposed to uphold the column and has kept it there to this day.

  23. The ruins show that the place was once important, and the guides point out the old cemetery, at whose gate the miracle is located.

  24. In having a miracle wrought before the eyes of the people, the Moslem priests are careful to make the conditions as easy as possible.

  25. If only to be borne through this great country on this wide water-way to the sea can work this change in a man's heart, what miracle might not be wrought by a few years of life in its solitude?

  26. I know not how the spell is wrought; nor have I ever met one who could put the miracle of its working into words.

  27. It is here that the supposed miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius is "performed" twice or thrice a year.

  28. Yes, Louise, nursing is a miracle of transformation going on before one's bewildered eyes.

  29. Sunset found them seated on the rock, with the waters of the river turned to wine at the miracle in the sky their miracle.

  30. In the space of four short weeks a miracle had begun to show itself.

  31. You shall smile and you shall frown, but you shall see what a miracle she can work!

  32. Watching, Ringfield saw what greatly astonished him, for presently the cats walked towards the door and a miracle appeared to happen!

  33. Nay, let us devoutly and thankfully believe and know that we do in very truth partake of the Lord's body, but in a spiritual mystery, higher and holier than any visible miracle would be.

  34. Morris dancers footed it upon the green, and miracle plays were enacted by wandering troops of mummers.

  35. Above the chorus of young voices pealed that one most perfect--the bird-sweet voice of Ikey Einstein, devoid of its accent by some queer miracle of song.

  36. For some minutes I was whirled about by eddies and shoots in such a way that it seems to me now a miracle that I escaped being dashed to pieces several times.

  37. How has such a miracle come to pass in our days?

  38. We hope to pay a visit to the Alm every year, for we have good cause to offer up especial thanks to God upon this spot where so great a miracle has been wrought upon our child.

  39. At last he spoke,-- "Peter, some miracle has been performed upon you!

  40. It seemed to him that it must have been a miracle or an infernal possession, a species of madness, that had driven him on, every day disappointed, and every day hopeful.

  41. But time, the enchantress, with all her benefactions, all her favor, all her consideration, has wrought no miracle of perpetual youth for the Boys in Blue or the gallant Veterans.

  42. He is a Chimborazo of noise with an ant-hill of achievement to back it; a miracle of linked hallucinations ludicrously elongated; an extinct incandescent carbon belching black smoke.

  43. It is by a miracle only that MaƤsau has stood alone so long.

  44. And by another miracle she might go on standing alone a little longer.

  45. Benten had wrought this miracle for the sake of her worshippers.

  46. But a Japanese friend explains the miracle thus:-- "The spirit-bride was really formed out of the tanzaku.

  47. If the proposal appears to be exceptional and the position untenable at first sight, it is only because the prosaic parliamentary machinery of normal times has by a miracle been preserved into times that are abnormal.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miracle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.