How to Use coven in a Sentence

coven

noun
  • Hilarity ensues, mostly, and, like in all camp movies, this coven of misfits learns to love each other, plus some valuable lessons about life and car repossession.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 May 2024
  • The purple that Mae dons in episode 1 is tied to the coven.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 19 June 2024
  • Jesse Prentiss was the last of her coven and the dead were coming.
    courant.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • This was their chance not only to burn a witch but to torch a coven.
    Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The skeleton to me, in the end, is someone whose come from the coven to make sure and collect.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Pick your poison—a cult, a coven, a murder house, a freak show?
    Lauren Chval, RedEye Chicago, 30 Oct. 2017
  • When the fire broke out, both Mae and Osha believed the other twin had been killed along with the rest of the coven.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
  • While some of them proved to be trouble, some of them came to the rescue when the coven needed them most.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The coven may think of her body as a vessel, but the audience never does.
    refinery29.com, 12 June 2018
  • In the brow coven's defense, Meghan's eyebrows are amazing.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 27 Jan. 2019
  • Along with the other hedge witches, Mambo Marie helps them go agains the pagans who are trying to kill the coven.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 1 Feb. 2020
  • On the whole, Sabrina and her coven stick to a handful of style signatures.
    Halie Lesavage, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Teenage angst goes supernatural when the new girl at school falls in with a coven of witches — and things go off the rails.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, Good Housekeeping, 19 May 2022
  • Why not embrace a full witchy wardrobe while wandering around with your coven.
    Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Patricia has become convinced that the dance school is home to a coven of witches.
    Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2018
  • The world is her coven, and there's plenty of room for more people to appreciate her witchy wiles.
    Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 June 2022
  • Then, the third season centers on a coven of witches battling against those who wish to destroy them.
    Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Even her own mother—the coven’s head witch—refuses mercy when Agatha pleads for her life.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Dunham is the latest high-profile celebrity to stop by the covens, freak shows and asylums in Murphy's world.
    Time, 30 Oct. 2016
  • Also, the eighth season features the fight between witches of the coven and the antichrist to prevent the apocalypse.
    Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Diane Lane and Amber Tamblyn lead the coven left behind.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2021
  • And there are other college cliques just as razored as the most Heathers-like sorority coven.
    Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The set became a community in which all four actors formed their own IRL coven.
    Kim Wong-Shing, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2020
  • His articles in the early 2000s describe how knowledge – once shared at no cost in covens – became something to be bought in the form of a book.
    Helen A. Berger, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
  • But a cleaner who can get rid of the gang of evil spirits who have found inept San Diego a welcoming coven without fear of reprisal.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The Craft: Legacy follows a brand new coven of witches, who welcome a new member that just moved into town.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 29 Sep. 2020
  • With Budapest serving as high priestess, the coven grew.
    Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Nope, because Kalabar and his son were way more entertaining than some black knights and an evil coven.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 22 Sep. 2017
  • There were also talks about Prudence and Ambrose going off and starting their own coven.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2022
  • As danger surrounds her, she’s forced deeper into the occult, and a pact with a coven of witches may be her only hope.
    Jd Linville, Variety, 25 May 2022

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