How to Use emanation in a Sentence

emanation

noun
  • More than four decades later, the record still feels like an emanation from another plane.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • All the same, his complaint-ish emanations existed and persisted in the smoky air between us.
    — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Is Electra an emanation of Orestes’ desire to kill his mother?
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • This perhaps had something to do with the curious luminance of the boy’s face, as in paintings of saints, as though the glow were the emanation of grace.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The building’s pores exude sweaty emanations of New York’s downtown art and poetry scene.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
  • From presence as performance to loving presence as emanation.
    — Gregory Stebbins, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Two emanations of the holy city of Los Angeles; two distinct transits across the firmament.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Another way of saying this is that the radiant or emanation point of most meteor showers appears highest in the sky before dawn.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 7 Dec. 2025
  • So Serious, a compilation of Enya edits that distilled the singer’s voice down to a distant emanation.
    — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Drummer Tim Wyskida bashed those riffs down from the sky while bassist James Plotkin accented with more subterranean emanations.
    — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 25 May 2023
  • Interspersed with radio emissions from stars, the astronomers were surprised to find the characteristic heat emanations from some six million solar masses of dust.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
  • This felt like an emanation from the California of the nineteen-twenties, when spiritual seekers settled in towns like Ojai and tried to start anew.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
  • Titian was, however, uncommonly alive to the softly pulsing, mortal emanations of other people.
    — Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • In the medieval period, people interpreted the universe as a creation of the divine and all its manifestations as emanations of divine will.
    — The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
  • And the near-vacuum of space is filled with low-level ambient radio emanations, known as cosmic noise, which come from distant quasars, the sun, and the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
    — Sven Bilén, IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2020
  • Thus, the Third Reich was the emanation of a collective as well as an individual’s imagination.
    — Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Slate Magazine, 14 Mar. 2017
  • Thus, in Halifax’s universe, decision making is mostly an emanation of character.
    — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Seen in hovering profile, Duke Ellington seems as much emanation as man, an emissary from a musical realm DeCarava grants us entry to.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2022
  • Billowing burnouts and thunderous emanations are standard equipment on the Challenger SRT siblings.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Sep. 2017
  • This is one of numerous subplots Melo weaves together in a script which leaves several loose ends carelessly dangling but does feel like an organic emanation of the particular place and culture depicted.
    — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2018
  • As the two descended to the sidewalk, Thread emanations rose from half-a-dozen half-dazed dancers and their Volunteer captives like steam or transparent smoke or heat, invisible to the eye but easy enough to detect with the right senses.
    — Nisi Shawl, Slate Magazine, 22 Feb. 2017
  • And Wixey notes that existing research on detrimental human exposure to acoustic emanations has found potential effects that are both physiological and psychological.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2019
  • But the social media ecosystem has obliterated just about every taboo, and from the twin toilets of the internet known as Twitter and TikTok, a ghastly emanation has arisen to challenge the conventional wisdom about food’s place in the bathroom.
    — Jonathan Dale / The Takeout, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2024
  • For example, a particular strain of moderate to liberal Christianity attempts to reach a common ground with Islam predicated on the mutual understanding that both traditions understand the other to be an emanation from a common divine source.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2012
  • Additional equipment and improvements will be incorporated as necessary (test-fix-retest methodology) to ensure systems are adequately shielded, bonded, and/or separated to eliminate any compromising emanations.
    — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2008
  • This legal theology, conjured from the penumbras and emanations of past antiregulatory decisions, insists that sizable regulations require patently-impossible-to-acquire congressional authorization.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 10 July 2024
  • In Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism, there are more buddhas than just the single historical Buddha (Gautama or Shakyamuni Buddha), and Vairochana is considered to be the supreme and cosmic form of the Buddha, of which the others are emanations.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Last year, a group of researchers reported findings at the Crypto 2018 conference in Santa Barbara, California that ultrasonic emanations from the internal components of computer monitors could reveal the information being depicted on the screen.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2019

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