How to Use transcendence in a Sentence

transcendence

noun
  • There is no grand transcendence.
    — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But the idea was at some point, to arrive at a kind of transcendence.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Dark, kind of grim, not all that catchy, full of flotsam, and full of transcendence.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • But buried in these pieces is a kind of insistence on joy and transcendence.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • But the transcendence never quite ports over to his paintings of this era.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The world feels heavy, and there is no lightness of being that transcendence can bring.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Those rare stadium shows that achieve transcendence do it through the crowd.
    — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Mixed into all of that, there was also transcendence.
    — Leah Donnella, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Franzen writes aren’t meant to offer transcendence, but rather pleasure.
    — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Transcendence is not a goal served by the pat conclusions that mar some of these stories.
    — Jess Zimmerman, New Republic, 13 June 2017
  • Musk sought out works that offered both cause for despair and a vision of transcendence.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
  • It has been looked at from every perspective in a search for transcendence.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
  • These are songs meant for arenas, spoken in a language of pop transcendence.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2021
  • There is, after all, some virtue in having all of this transcendence gathered up in one place.
    — S.c. Gwynne, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2018
  • Awareness of its constructs and confines does not equal transcendence of them.
    — Brian Gresko, Longreads, 12 June 2018
  • When pop is practiced well, the end result is something like transcendence.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
  • But for a moment, this blend of past, present, and future touches transcendence.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • But what makes the songs work for me is that they were written in a spirit of joy, and a desire for transcendence.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2022
  • That would then go from casual to, like, white-hot, like transcendence, power.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 19 June 2019
  • The damp morning mist added a feeling of transcendence to a place of solemnity and majesty.
    — Deborah Doyle, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
  • The film offers transcendence in the moments when Eviah lets go of his fear of the slide.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • There are people who depend on the transcendence of their family or their friends.
    — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • Is revenge the truest form of justice, or is true justice the transcendence of revenge?
    — New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • From a new travel series that finds meaning in the mundane, transcendence even where there isn’t any.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The graphic sits perfectly at a nexus of horror, punk and transcendence.
    — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2019
  • This story embodies their transcendence and helps to keep the flame burning.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • No longer just somewhere to make a living, work has become a place to find purpose, and, yes, even transcendence.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2022
  • That does not discount the impact of dance songs or high-energy music as a form of transcendence.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2022
  • There’s always been this sense of the blues somehow related to trauma as well as a kind of transcendence.
    — Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • President-elect Biden has for years stressed the pursuit of transcendence.
    — Will Johnson, STAT, 13 Nov. 2020

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