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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
heaven-sent
adjective
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▪ Above all, they worked the tides, using those heaven-sent moving roads of water to help them on their way.
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heaven-sent

a. fortunate, appropriate or providential, as if ordained by God

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heaven-sent

adj. peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery" [syn: providential, miraculous]

Usage examples of "heaven-sent".

The others might have demurred at leaving Prague so soon in other circumstances, but with a heaven-sent guide added to the party, gratis, it seemed much the most practical and economic solution to run right through, as Tossa had urged, spend as long as possible in the east, and then make then-way back, without a guide, over a road already travelled once.

Has some heaven-sent disease enwrapt thy frame, or hast thou heard from our father some deadly threat concerning me and my sons?

The golden goose would fly north, but in the arrival of General Calvet the Cardinal saw a heaven-sent way of preventing that flight.

But Wellesley had no regrets at posing such difficulties for Stevenson, for the chance to turn the enemy's flank was heaven-sent.