How to Use minor miracle in a Sentence

minor miracle

noun
  • Winning at either site would be a minor miracle.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Getting anything made is a minor miracle.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 16 Dec. 2025
  • San Fran gets by with Band-Aids and bailing wire, enough to make 6-4 seem a minor miracle.
    — Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2025
  • That such a festival has maintained its vision, community, and purpose more than a decade after Ebert’s death is a minor miracle.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For a team that was a half-game out of last place in the West a couple of days before Christmas, just getting back to play-in range this soon represents a minor miracle.
    — Tim Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • For an American, just getting into Cuba is a minor miracle; getting to drive there feels like winning some geopolitical lottery.
    — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Fans should savour the glamour of intercontinental trips, however, as, barring a minor miracle, Spurs’ fixture list will be significantly less glitzy next term.
    — Elias Burke, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • But in reality, West Ham left themselves needing a minor miracle by taking just 14 points from their first 21 Premier League games of the season.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Erling Haaland and Norway will qualify for the 2026 World Cup on Sunday, barring a minor miracle from Italy.
    — Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
  • The Champions League leapt from 125 to 189 games last season — once that happened, every new edition of the EFL Cup is a minor miracle.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
  • After losses to Colorado State and SDSU — each was gruesome in its own way — Fresno State needs a minor miracle to play for the conference championship.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025

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