How To Use Preternaturally In A Sentence
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They are also quite preternaturally ugly, bringing a rude abbreviation to the extension of the leg and drawing attention to the unbeautiful formlessness of the shoe, and the cheapness of its material and fabrication.
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The phalanges preternaturally straight, the knuckles pale and taut, the lunulae fastidiously cleared of cuticle, as perfect in their crescents as any moon over Arabia.
Kalooki Nights
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(here the ludicrous expression predominated); "hope you'll be comfortable, sir" (here he nearly burst into a laugh); "show you into master's study, sir, directly" (here he became preternaturally grave again); and, opening the study door, ushered me into the presence of the dreaded tutor.
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
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Our Idiot Brother," about a preternaturally guileless hippie named Ned and his three weird sisters, has a title designed to tickle: Idiot brother?
'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart
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As a sleeping princess, her blank face and torso exaggerate rather than diminish the beauty of her preternaturally leggy dancing.
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It is preternaturally quiet, as in one of those movies in which scenes of domestic bliss are a harbinger of something truly horrible.
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Longtime Devine-watchers pointed to Stan's fondness for playing the ponies, but he's also a basketball and football enthusiast, and has had some preternaturally bad picks.
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Her pulse athrob but her senses and judgment preternaturally sharp, she gauged its dimensions as five hundred by three hundred meters.
The Game Of Empire
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With every bark, she evokes profound feelings. I am preternaturally moved by puppies.
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Gorgeous, gifted and preternaturally poised, the 24-year-old actress-singer came to Hollywood in 1941 and quickly became the first African-American movie star.
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But later, when they're over-rehearsed into being preternaturally wise and all-seeing, they start to cloy.
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His absence bloomed in her until she grew absent herself, preternaturally agreeable.
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According to another, the British are preternaturally blind to the merits of modern art.
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The ground is carpeted with a grass of preternaturally vivid green and rankness of growth, mixed with a handsome fern, with a caudex a foot high, the Sadleria cyathoides, and another of exquisite beauty, the Micropia tenuifolia, which are said to be the commonest ferns on Hawaii.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Berman was preternaturally gifted at remolding people at the vulnerable, liminal moment in adolescence," he said.
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The house seemed preternaturally silent.
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At first I couldn't make out the words, just the preternaturally LOUD sound of a boy's voice flatly declaiming some sort of Important Announcement.
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He broke off as the door to their room opened and a sharp-faced, preternaturally thin man with spindly arms and legs tightly covered by taut sunbaked skin peered inside.
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At any rate, the string writing is jaw-droppingly expert, particularly startling in one so young, the independence of parts preternaturally clear, without a trace of academicism.
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As they approach that limit they become preternaturally intelligent and violently paranoiac.
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The shame attendant on confessing to sexual sin should not be underestimated, especially for penitents raised on preternaturally high standards with regard to purity.
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Bertrams did not grow on every bush, and whose senses the function had preternaturally sharpened for any address from Romance, seized and shook her sister's arm; and, later on, in a Louis Quinze _causeuse_, up stairs, they agreed that if young Cope really had had another claimant on his attention, it was all the better that their Amy had ended by taking
Bertram Cope's Year
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One week after this story was written, the top 20 pop albums in the United States included records by fresh-faced adolescents the Beatles, teen sensation Bob Seger, twentysomething heartthrob Frank Sinatra, a barely-postpubescent but preternaturally-talented Bob Marley, recent high school graduate Rod Stewart, former boy band member Johnny Cash, newly-discovered youth sensation Barry White, and a band whose name is synonymous with "teenage rebellion": Pink Floyd.
Sirilyan Diary Entry
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One preternaturally long bony hand, a length of severed rope dangling from the wrist, clutched with clawed fingers at a sword gash in chain mail stained with dried blood.
Conan The Invincible
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He clearly adores his kids, who are all stalwart, funny and, for tweeners, preternaturally considerate.
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Looking from the outside in, they view design as preternaturally flawed, subject to fluctuating markets and consequent shifts in personal taste, economic stability and technological change.
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Although invisible to present probes, such preternaturally potent super-snakes are conceivably copulating throughout the icy blackness of outer space.
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Opposite, another young lawyer, Eugene Fort, was saying preternaturally bright things to Tiny, who lifted her sweet orbs at intervals and remarked: "How _dreadfully_ clever you are, Mr. Fort; I am _so_ afraid of you!" or "How _sweet_ of you to think I am worth all those _real_ epigrams!
The Californians
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He changes his off-white shirt for a beige one that makes him look, if anything, even more preternaturally pale.
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([Greek: teras] is Cicero's own word), as preternaturally endowed, in this quality of working power.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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And to be preternaturally sincere, I prefer a well-aired bottle of Chateauneuf-de-Pape and a nice Saumon-au-Beurre over beer and barbecue any day.
James Rotondi: Bush and Obama: What Really (Might Have) Happened
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Why does everything have to be experienced through the prism of preternaturally beautiful high-school teens, or perfectly-coiffed (yet fiercely dedicated) professionals?
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The 14 dancers in the final team are young, lithe and preternaturally flexible.
Cunningham's Legacy Touches the West Coast
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We had an awesome cairn terrier / Jack Russell mix that was preternaturally intelligent, capable of stunning tricks (including climbing trees), but he wouldn't fetch a stick for any reward.
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she was preternaturally beautiful
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As a sleeping princess, her blank face and torso exaggerate rather than diminish the beauty of her preternaturally leggy dancing.
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Although invisible to present probes, such preternaturally potent super-snakes are conceivably copulating throughout the icy blackness of outer space.
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They are also quite preternaturally ugly, bringing a rude abbreviation to the extension of the leg and drawing attention to the unbeautiful formlessness of the shoe, and the cheapness of its material and fabrication.
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And while a quarterback can improvise and create, NFL defenses are savvy enough to swallow up all but the most preternaturally gifted field generals.
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But I am here to tell you that swans are preternaturally strong beyond ordinary imagination, clannish, quick to anger, domineering, and that they posses a decided mean streak.
