How to Use cauldron in a Sentence

cauldron

noun
  • Black Magic,’ which gets closer to the black of a witch’s cauldron with faint red streaks.
    Kenneth Setzer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • But know this: if the Lions win a couple early on, once again, the city will bubble like a cauldron.
    Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The executive branch has been a cauldron of turbulence.
    Author: Dan Balz, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 July 2017
  • In years past, attendees might have glimpsed a faux alligator lurking among water lilies or a dragon standing over a cauldron full of flowers.
    Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, kansascity, 2 July 2017
  • Deep in the valley below us, in the middle distance, gaped the great black cauldron of Litli-Hrútur, its insides awash in a churning fiery stew.
    Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Shop giant spiders and window lights to creep out your neighbors, or grab an inflatable witch cauldron cooler to hold your sodas and canned cocktails at your costume party.
    Kaitlin Gates, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The torch was ultimately passed to the Aboriginal sprinter Cathy Freeman, who lit the cauldron.
    Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2017
  • For all of the challenges that the city presents, the United States has fared better here than in some other Central American cauldrons.
    Steven Goff, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2017
  • This is not the first time the Olympic cauldron has gone out.
    Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The flame took and rose, through the rings, up to the cauldron, which erupted in fire.
    Scott Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Add a cauldron and your kids will have their own pot of gold at the end of the game.
    Christopher Murray, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The cauldron of death and Chicago, got to put an end to it.
    Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • The course took the runners past the Olympic cauldron used for the Atlanta Games.
    Charles Odum, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Oh yeah, and those tight shots of the bubbling cauldron.
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2023
  • Wilkin said that the size of the cauldrons were exciting.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 June 2024
  • So it’s you, Snape, and your brother around a cauldron of soup?
    Dawn Davis, Bon Appétit, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Eason, for his part, can’t wait to be in that cauldron.
    Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2021
  • At the hot-pot restaurant, the staff brought out a cauldron of dark-red water.
    Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2019
  • So what kind of look does the 46-year old have cooking up in her cauldron for this year?
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2019
  • King isn't the only one stirring up the creepy cauldron.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Things may be about to bubble up around you like a witch's cauldron.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2022
  • There was a fire pit, with a cast-iron cauldron of hot cider hanging over it.
    Ryan D'agostino, Car and Driver, 16 Aug. 2020
  • If any sorcery remains for the Round of 32, then the Magic City could be the cauldron.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The World Cup cauldron is a lot to handle, for any player.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 19 July 2023
  • Pour it into a cauldron and dress the sides with paper flames.
    Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 5 July 2022
  • There, the Olympic cauldron was lit by the skater Kenneth Charles Henry.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 July 2024
  • By the time the cauldron was lit and fireworks filled the sky over Tokyo, most of the athletes had left or were leaving.
    Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • Ali, who died in 2016, also lit the cauldron at the Atlanta games, and the center displays the torch.
    Curtis Tate, USA TODAY, 9 June 2020
  • Next to one of the piles, some skeletons gather around a cauldron resting in a fire pit.
    Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Painting, then, was the cauldron in which Varo brewed her potions.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023

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