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How to use preternatural in a sentence

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He is a being with no preternatural qualities, and differs from real living animals only in extreme smallness and agility.
The whites of his eyes were large in my view and surrounding two jet black preternatural pupils unlike any I had seen before.
Bacon, Galileo and Descartes rejected the preternatural je ne sais quoi in favour of a scientific examination of nature.
Abruptly, Beth and the other vampire joined the fray, fighting with teeth as well as preternatural speed and strength.
But more than anything else, I heard expressions of awe at the president's preternatural certainty and wonderment about its source.
For example, I've been in the Marines for over half my life and yet I've retained a preternatural instinct for interior design.
It starts out slow and ethereal, but when the chorus comes, it effloresces into a symphony of preternatural sound that blows you away.
The assistant moves with preternatural delicacy, and speed, and soon the ant is seated.
He's developed a preternatural ability to get the squeaker out of any toy, always accompanied by clouds of Hollofil.
Tsai's preternatural simplicity wondrously collapses the spaces between viewer and viewed, depicter and depicted.
Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders.
Lots of converters cost more, but not many can match its preternatural realism, and especially its musicality.
Schwarzenegger is adept at disguising his true feelings beneath a mask of preternatural calm, but he was suddenly doubly alert.
Giant machines and preternatural contraptions can dominate the landscape.
And for a few brief minutes the skies opened and sunlight streamed down from above, lighting the lake from within, giving the jellyfish a preternatural glow.
In those works, skies and landscapes seem filled with portents, animals convey a preternatural awareness, and lurid light touches everything with strange glamour.
And truly, the lack of coverage by the world's most powerful media outlets and the fact that all guests are sworn to secrecy gives the whole conference a preternatural aura.
All it takes is a preternatural sense of musical trends and history, a cunning knack for timing, and the willingness to completely reinvent yourself.
But he will need preternatural skills to achieve a victory against Mr Hollande.
But if the French found Mr Sarkozy's self-promoting hyperactivity stressful, they now find Mr Hollande's preternatural calm unnerving.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is always a difficult task to exhume such buried treasure, for some preternatural guardian or other will be found on the alert.
He was speaking in a deadened voice which had yet a preternatural distinctness.
All the letters have this preternatural solemnity, as if each was a study in style after the favorite Addisonian model.
I allude to the enormous, almost preternatural magnitude of the wild-grape vine, and its tortuosity.
Even my preternatural eagerness could not discern who they were!
And so Ormiston felt, as he stood eyeing it with preternatural gravity.
She saw, with preternatural insight, into its nooks and corners.
Daddy hunted about with a look of preternatural sagacity about him.
Why this preternatural felon should be obliged to wait till the door was left unlocked, was a question which did not present itself.
Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.
In this undertaking he manifests a preternatural astuteness.
As for discontentments, they are, in the politic body, like to humors in the natural, which are apt to gather a preternatural heat, and to inflame.
Periodically and with a preternatural sense as to when the time was right, he would add cow manure, rabbit dottles or bladder wrack seaweed from the beach.
Their instinctive dread caused him to feel more strongly than aught else, that a preternatural horror was interwoven with the threads of the black crape.
His Typeean majesty, with all his court, gazed upon me in amazement, as if I had displayed some preternatural faculty which Heaven had denied to them.
With a memory sharpened to almost preternatural clearness, she remarked every turn in the road, and formed a mental estimate of the time to be occupied in traversing it.
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