Sentence examples for supernatural from inspiring English sources

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'supernatural' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is beyond the scope of scientific understanding or that is considered to be caused by a supernatural force. For example: "The villagers believed that the fire had been caused by a supernatural force."

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supernatural

adjective

Above nature; that which is beyond or added to nature, often so considered because it is given by a deity or some force beyond that which humans are born with. In Roman Catholic theology, sanctifying grace is considered to be a supernatural addition to human nature.

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As the authors point out, "it seems strange to have a supernatural power that only allows you to get around by mimicking human ambulation… a very slow and awkward way of moving about in the scheme of things".

Being Human wasn't the only supernatural drama back on Sunday night.

In this raw and shocking photograph of New York street life in the 1940s, the great Arthur Fellig – he got his nickname Weegee from his almost supernatural ability to get to crime scenes before the police, as if he had a weegee board to contact the newly dead – uses violent crime as an image of the loss of innocence.

This is a glimpse of contemporary peasant life in rural China, shot through with history but rendered almost hallucinatory by the muted colours and the sustained sense of the supernatural.

For Petersen, meteorites are both solid scientific evidence and wondrous objects that have fallen from the heavens, carrying all sorts of resonances – from the scientific to the superstitious, the earthly to the supernatural.

The scenes with Bran and co are the most difficult to pull off – like Dany in Meereen they are increasingly apart from the rest of the action, plus there's a strong supernatural element.

Yes, it's all supernatural and superheroes on the CW, but if that's what the kids want, well, they're certainly going to give it to them.

Toby Whithouse has said that in series one the threat was supernatural, in series two the threat was human and in series three the threat comes from within.

Most people's vote might go to The Woman in Black; though even old potboilers such as Gaslight can be quite chilling when the lights begin to flicker, and Conor McPherson's supernatural dramas generate a genuine frisson.

BBC3's supernatural drama Being Human returned for its fourth series with just over 1.1 million viewers on Sunday night, slightly down on its third season launch.

He sees himself engaged in a supernatural struggle on the side of God and Iran's supreme leader against an arcane axis of Zionists, western intelligence agencies, and journalists.

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