How to Use spiritual in a Sentence

spiritual

1 of 2 adjective
  • France will always be the spiritual home of wine lovers.
  • Doctors must consider the emotional and spiritual needs of their patients.
  • I regularly consult our pastor about spiritual matters.
  • The Romantic composers saw Beethoven as a spiritual ancestor.
  • This may have been the most spiritual part of the day.
    — Essence, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Then there are songs that people will be moved in a lot of spiritual ways.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Berry starts out with her own attempt to make the wolf her spiritual kin.
    — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Tarot did not start out as a spiritual or fortune-telling tool.
    — Vana Goblot, The Conversation, 13 May 2026
  • Tarot did not start out as a spiritual or fortune-telling tool.
    — Ziv Epstein, Fortune, 16 May 2026
  • As for my wellness, spiritual joy is the goal this year.
    — Akili King, Essence, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The music even feels spiritual to him at this point.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The band is the spiritual power source for these shows.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • For some that might be spiritual.
    — ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • My dear friend has had a bit of a spiritual awakening over the past year or so.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 13 June 2026
  • What was supposed to be just a press trip felt like a spiritual retreat.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The song blends the spiritual and the secular and in many ways is a prayer.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There is no law that will fix our culture; this is a spiritual problem.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Think of it as a way to get in touch with the potential spiritual lessons of the year.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Over time, a spiritual layer found its way into the brief as well.
    — Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar, Architectural Digest, 24 May 2026
  • Some of the meetings have been more spiritual.
    — CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • There was something about it that felt spiritual.
    — Outside, 10 Mar. 2026
  • To choose my spiritual path, not someone else’s.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
  • For centuries, spiritual hymns have kept hope alive, even more so for the enslaved.
    — Ukee Washington, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • Then, Sanders, a spiritual man in his own right, began to speak.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Maybe evil is a spiritual substance in and of itself.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The question of aliens has always been a spiritual one.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 June 2026
  • Pastoral and spiritual care are sacred in their own way.
    — Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The album took on a spiritual weight.
    — Audrey Gibbs, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
  • But there was something more creative and spiritual at play.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
  • More than a spiritual soundbite, this idea is rooted in the very laws of the universe.
    — Sharon Daniels, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

spiritual

2 of 2 noun
  • The congregation sang hymns and spirituals.
  • The score to this work mixes blues, spirituals, garage rock and more.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The crowd lit candles as someone played a recording of an old spiritual.
    — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Sitting by the fire at night borders on spiritual.
    — Graham Averill, Outside, 20 Mar. 2026
  • To have been in an audience who had never before heard the harmonies of a spiritual.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Plus their wide-ranging repertoire includes blues, rags, spirituals, and more.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The song’s origins have been traced to spirituals at the turn of the 20th century.
    — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The course stands out for marrying the practical and the spiritual.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Stanley had a songbook full of these, some spirited, some spiritual.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • DuPont will present a recital of art songs, spirituals and gospels by both female and male black composers on June 26.
    — Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2019
  • Even in Paul, though, the spiritual is balanced by the material.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The answers engineers have given me vary from the spiritual to the pragmatic.
    — James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The answers engineers have given me vary from the spiritual to the pragmatic.
    — James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The work merges Black spirituals with ballet and contemporary dance.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • Divine Life can only include what lives forever, which is the spiritual.
    — Tessa Parmenter, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Let’s go back to the first century, when Jesus united the physical and the spiritual.
    — Stephanie McCrummen, The Atlantic, 18 May 2026
  • As the night’s conductor of spirituals, Solange made self-sabotage and pain sound so bittersweet.
    — Adelle Platon, Billboard, 10 Nov. 2019
  • The rest of their 80-minute recital at the DuSable Museum will hold arias, songs and spirituals.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • With Bob, there is a kind of ascetic renunciation in his suffering that borders on the spiritual.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2022
  • All three actors have rich voices that fill the small theater with the sounds of African American spirituals and civil rights anthems.
    — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • Cole’s formative years were spent in church; gospel songs, hymns and spirituals formed the foundation of his musical education.
    — Donna M. Cox, The Conversation, 18 Feb. 2025
  • His church members sang Southern spirituals and gospel songs, auctioned off a quilt, and raised around $2,000 for their sister city.
    — Kim Cross, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2015
  • His church members sang Southern spirituals and gospel songs, auctioned off a quilt, and raised around $2,000 for their sister city.
    — Kim Cross, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2011
  • The New Moon also regularly hosts small events and offers one-on-one spiritual and soul coaching classes.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The troupe’s fresh take on the art form — drawing on blues, spirituals and gospel for inspiration — changed the perception of American dance.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018
  • Families promised to intimately share their lives, from the spiritual to the financial, and often bought homes near one another.
    — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2020
  • We were all taken by the renditions, two old negro spirituals, and a Solange song — a recent negro spiritual.
    — Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Elvis did the traditional Black spiritual as part of a gospel medley for his late ’60s network comeback special.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 June 2022
  • For their next concert, the VocalEssence choirs will recall the civil rights movement through anthems, spirituals and more.
    — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Strictly observant Jews fast from sundown to sundown to transcend the physical and focus on the spiritual.
    — Bert Stratton, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022

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