ethereal
extremely delicate and light, seeming too refined for this world
Ethereal in a sentence
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The choir's ethereal harmonies seemed to float through the cathedral.
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The naturalist warned that the alpine bloom was blank, a spectacle of color that would vanish within days of the thaw, leaving no trace by midsummer.
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