How to Use nonphysical in a Sentence

nonphysical

adjective
  • Scott will share with you the details of how to tidy nonphysical clutter from chapter 4 on.
    — Marie Kondo, Marie Claire, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Now, her grandson, Vladyslav, 17, has to live with the nonphysical scars of that trauma.
    — NBC News, 20 Mar. 2022
  • As if the nonphysical boundaries weren’t enough, a large portion of the show had the band performing behind a semi-sheer curtain.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • There are also four nonphysical commandments of garlic knots.
    — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 6 Mar. 2017
  • Contacts were sorted by place (home, school, work, leisure) and by nature (physical or nonphysical, brief or longer lasting).
    — Jill Neimark, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Where Reasons End is set in a nontemporal, nonphysical place.
    — Eve Bowen, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Then, add nonphysical assets such as investments, bank accounts and insurance policies.
    — Scott Nordlund, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 June 2018
  • This shows there are nonphysical properties and knowledge that can only be discovered through experiences.
    — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
  • After quite a long period of nonphysical contact, the first formal meetings will be pretty agonizing.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 May 2021
  • To be clear, the attorneys THR spoke with agree that nonphysical abuse and coercive control are very real problems.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Services costs, which include nonphysical purchases like tutoring and tax preparation, had begun to climb quickly.
    — Christine Zhang, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • This inverse square law, which arises from geometry, is an idealization that strictly applies to nonphysical point masses.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Those with an appreciable interest in nonphysical playfulness scored high, and playful adults who were physically active scored the highest.
    — Kevin Johnson, Outside Online, 4 May 2022
  • During practice that day, Brown and Mayock got into a nonphysical but heated exchange on the practice field, Rapoport reported.
    — Jason Hanna, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
  • They’re encompassed by a host of nonphysical attributes that contribute to how you’re perceived, including the idiosyncrasies and quirks of your personality.
    — Sable Yong, TIME, 28 June 2024
  • Now that players can return to campus, they'll be allowed voluntary workouts and up to eight hours of virtual nonphysical activities through July 19.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2020
  • Many law enforcement officers, who often handle domestic violence calls, now receive training on how to identify gender bias and detect nonphysical domestic abuse.
    — Susan R. Paisner | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2018
  • But amortization, the term for depreciating nonphysical assets, was less straightforward.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 8 July 2021
  • At age 16, Joy says, a church youth leader in his early 30s groomed and manipulated her into a nonphysical romantic relationship.
    — Leslie Goldman, Marie Claire, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The enchanted synchronicities that fuel mystical rhythms, the nonphysical vibrations that generate magick.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 29 Aug. 2018
  • This is the mystery-cloud that floats over the music of Beatrice Dillon, a British composer-producer whose meticulous new album sounds like it was recorded in an impossible, nonphysical no-space.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Thirty-one percent of male fans experienced both physical and nonphysical harassment, according to the survey, and 60 percent of transgender attendeess reported physical homophobic or transphobic violence.
    — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018

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