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heaven-sent
[hev-uhn-sent]
adjective
providentially opportune.
A heaven-sent rain revived the crops.
heaven-sent
adjective
providential; fortunate
a heaven-sent opportunity
Word History and Origins
Origin of heaven-sent1
Example Sentences
“I ain’t an angel, you ain’t heaven-sent,” he sneers in “I Had Some Help,” a collaboration with a newly countryfied Post Malone.
In 1945, the seemingly heaven-sent outsiders departed, along with their novel goods.
It’s a subject that seems heaven-sent for Ijames, a writer who combines sharp social commentary with outrageous comedy, as anyone who saw the Geffen Playhouse production of “Fat Ham” can attest.
Over a half century after Franco Harris’s heaven-sent touchdown, the “Immaculate Reception” is as likely to be invoked at Sunday mass as the Immaculate Conception.
Michael Powell’s dreamy “The Tales of Hoffman,” in its heaven-sent Technicolor.
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