How to Use divine in a Sentence

divine

1 of 3 adjective
  • They prayed for divine intervention.
  • Both the food and views were divine.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 19 June 2026
  • Amazon has so many divine jeans to choose from.
    — Annie Blackman, InStyle, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Amazon has so many divine jeans to choose from.
    — Annie Blackman, InStyle, 30 Jan. 2026
  • And there was something divine in that bar that night.
    — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The timing of this movie feels divine.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • And there was something divine about it.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 June 2026
  • Power that may, in fact, be divine.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Ahhh yes, that will smell divine when mixed with notes of poop and spit up!
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Just fate, destiny, and divine plans.
    — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 1 June 2026
  • There was a divine perfection to it all in a weird way.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Moroccanoil body care smells and feels just as divine as its hair care.
    — Lily Wohlner, Allure, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Over the phone, Nudy says that the song’s success just might be divine.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • While the steak rests, brush slices of country bread with olive oil and toss them on the grill—divine!
    — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 23 Jan. 2023
  • In my opinion, the perfumes all smell divine.
    — Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Sinai was an outpouring of divine light.
    — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
  • To err is human; to forgive, divine.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The gold accents here look simply divine.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The tamal became one of those sacred dishes made from the divine grain.
    — Paula Soria, AZCentral.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • On this day of Dussehra, may your home be filled with divine energy.
    — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In Eusebius’ eyes, this was all part of the divine plan.
    — Brett Whalen, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The food was divine, and the service was attentive and warm.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026
  • Gesar is said to have been born to a divine lineage and was destined to become a great ruler.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • Much like cowboy boots, moto boots look divine when worn with tulle skirts and cashmere.
    — Clare Holden, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Having said that, the chocolate frosting on this cake is divine.
    — Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • And that sense of searching for the divine is at the heart of most of the songs on Revel.
    — Caitlin White, SPIN, 3 July 2023
  • Athena served as the central divine guardian and guide in the great epic, The Odyssey.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Fighting an uphill battle is not part of the divine plan for your life and career.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Whether in this world or whisked away from it, there Nancy was, close to the divine presence.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The rich, moist texture of this divine angel food cake is unlike any other.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2026

divine

2 of 3 noun
  • Just to put a little bit of the divine in it.
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 19 June 2026
  • The divine just seems to run through the veins of that entire album.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The thin skin is transparent and al dente; the juicy pork is divine.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2017
  • And Weir’s way with a chorus does tend to clear a path to the divine.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Your team looks sublime, indomitable even, a touch of the divine.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Must passion this intense yield to the divine, lend its force to the sacred?
    — Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The best will come close to perfection, as if nearing the divine.
    — Mark Cho, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2021
  • For them, the whirling dance symbolizes pure love — a return to the divine.
    — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Nor is the divine set apart from human suffering.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Titian is feeling out the very limits of mortal contact with the divine.
    — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
  • There’s a certain sadness that comes with coming across the divine at a tender age.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 14 Apr. 2020
  • An actor must summon the divine from the deepest part of himself.
    — Paul Vitello, New York Times, 10 July 2019
  • Bulleh Shah transposes the framework of the lover and beloved to the self and the divine.
    — Arman Khan, Pitchfork, 1 June 2026
  • Kropschot divines melodies in lines like a composer eking out a score.
    — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2025
  • This lightweight oil smells divine and gives curls just the right amount of moisture without being heavy.
    — Allure, 20 Aug. 2021
  • They were viewed as having a direct connection to the divine.
    — Rosalyn R. Lapier, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
  • In ancient Egypt, chamomile was considered a gift from the divine.
    — Hetty Lui McKinnon Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Husbands no longer serve as middlemen between wives and the divine.
    — Caroline Kline, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The show is divided into two themes, one mortal and the other divine.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • To walk under a live oak is to feel the presence of the divine; hold your camera to it, and the spirit escapes.
    — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Even a daydreamy young girl had a hard time locating the divine over the glare of blacktop and the whine of power tools.
    — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
  • The varied program explores love in many aspects, from earthly to divine.
    — oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2022
  • And Blandine, an unlikely linchpin, brings the divine down to earth.
    — Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Like many artistic endeavors, their efforts may have been rooted in an attempt to reach the divine.
    — Douglas Starr, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2012
  • The result is that humans have some wisdom, like the gods, but are not immortal and cannot challenge the divine.
    — Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • Both the Bible and the Quran list mercy and justice as foremost divine attributes.
    — Hasan Zillur Rahim, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Since Gorr is out to eliminate all gods, what better place to seek assistance than where the divine go to align?
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
  • People feel close to the divine there, nestled on the edge of the San Luis Valley.
    — Christopher Moyer, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2021
  • First, there’s the sheer number of people who want a harbor and even a taste of the divine in this season of such relentless grief.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The Elizabethan poet and divine was a mystic in bed and a mystic in the pulpit.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022

divine

3 of 3 verb
  • Its Orbs are meant to divine the real from the fake.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • For a first look at the final season, divine your way over here.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Polls cannot divine the future and should not be treated as gospel truth.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The words in her poems are like divining rods wiggling above an icy stream.
    — The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • For a first look at the 14-episode final season, divine your way over here.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Sappho and her fragments divine me.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • Her job is to divine what our shopping habits tell us about our economy and our future.
    — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
  • And, by extension, is there a way to divine whether Wang will survive?
    — Anna Altman, The New Yorker, 4 June 2019
  • Perhaps this is why Glück turns to them, again and again, to divine the texture of our inner life.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2020
  • James was already trying to divine ways to combat them in Game 2.
    — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
  • These are merely some of the variables at play as businesses try to divine the future.
    — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Look to these six states to divine the future of free elections in America.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Read his piece at The New York Times and divine the truth for yourself.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 July 2018
  • This source divined that Jayme had been abducted, raped and left in a small pond or lake northeast or east of her home.
    — Peter Passi / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2019
  • And now, the speed of the planet's passing can also divine the star's density.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2017
  • They're built puke rays and strobe tanks and amnesia devices in an attempt to divine the ultimate weapon.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
  • My lack of tact and legibility is divined.
    — Morgan Parker, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • When divining the moral character of the people running our country, we are asked to take their friends’ words for it.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 9 Apr. 2017
  • Sometimes divining a beauty look worthy of a trip around the sun is as simple as playing off your party dress.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Their job is not to divine who’s good and who’s bad—defense attorneys ensure that even the most disgusting among us get due process.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Each woman places her wreath in a river to divine her romantic future by its fate in the water’s flow (or by which man jumps in to save it).
    — Dominika Dyka, National Geographic, 6 July 2020
  • The publisher’s staff scurried around trying to divine where everybody might be.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • What that means in 2022, however, is harder to divine than ever.
    — Amy Erica Smith, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2022
  • As with so much else in the crisis, the line between fact and alternative fact is sometimes difficult to divine.
    — Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, The Atlantic, 24 June 2017
  • Trying to stay informed on Parler is like trying to divine the news by reading your grandparents’ junk mail.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • That icky moment was indeed a truth from Mescal, which O'Connor easily divined.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Based on inner qualities divined by a hat (yes, a hat), each student at Hogwarts is assigned to live in one of four houses.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Furthermore, the lesson in humbly yielding to divine Truth, rather than clinging to my own view, has proved valuable over and over in the years since.
    — Liz Butterfield Wallingford, Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2025
  • Other times, the state just makes a mistake, too arbitrary and inscrutable for the average person to divine and correct.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Singapore’s gamblers have long been known to visit cemeteries in the dead of night to divine winning lottery numbers.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025

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