How to Use divination in a Sentence

divination

noun

• The divination practice centers around four main lines on your palm: the heart line, the fate line, the head line, and the life line.
  — Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 31 May 2023
• His master cut up Luc's body and sold the parts for divination.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2022
• Tea leaves are also used as a divination tool to explore the past, present, and future.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 7 May 2018
• The earliest versions of tarot decks weren’t even used as a form of divination.
  — Claire Salinda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Tarot as a tool of divination is meant to give clarity to the person being read for.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 19 July 2022
• Tarot is a form of divination that uses a deck of playing cards to give us a sense of direction.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2021
• The universe is granting you a gift for divination practices that can draw out your own hidden thoughts.
  — Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
• The newcomers go for spells, crystals and forms of divination such as tarot cards, said Dulcis.
  — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• However, the cards didn’t become tools of divination until at least the 1800s.
  — Alegría Adedeji, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Feb. 2021
• Some say tarot was simply a card game like bridge or poker; others say the cards were always used for divination.
  — Jane Stern, Town & Country, 24 Sep. 2018
• But to get a better sense of the album’s divination of modern trends, Billboard did flip over several of those rocks.
  — Patrick Lyons, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2021
• The way people have read tarot has evolved over centuries, but many believe them to be a tool for divination or looking into the unknown.
  — Erica Euse, Teen Vogue, 27 Dec. 2018
• For those who may not be familiar with the practice, tarot is a form of divination that uses a deck of cards to provide us with a sense of direction.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• They are still used today in the art of divination and continue to be worn as talismans in different parts of the world to bring good fortune.
  — Kristen Shirley, Forbes, 6 June 2021
• The opacity of the process can sometimes make Zeidman’s role seem like divination.
  — Teresa Mathew, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• In the process of divination, the priest places a powder called iyerosun over the tray and draws it into nine sections, each representing an ancient.
  — NOLA.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• But all of the props, vintage occult books and divination tools have value, probably for someone on your list.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• Prints are inspired by divination tools, such as seashells and a pencil sharpener.
  — Laura Hawkins, Vogue, 27 June 2022
• Inside the dough, there is a piece of rolled or folded piece of paper with a human character trait that is supposed to reveal a divination of sorts.
  — NBC News, 25 Jan. 2020
• Kiley Mann was 10 when she was gifted her first set of runes, a Nordic divination tool, which sparked a lifelong journey into witchcraft.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
• In the fourth century ad, the Church banned every form of divination or practice that involved reading the future in any way, because only God could know it.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
• Like me, Dore uses tarot not as a form of fortunetelling or divination but as a way to better understand ourselves and live in alignment with our values.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• Short of divination, something evidently was in the air in the 1850s that Whitman captured and Lincoln at least appeared to embody.
  — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2021
• Finney turned to her godmother, a priestess of Ifa, a religion of the Yoruba people of western Africa and system of divination, to teach her about mediumship.
  — Tatiana Boncompagni, Marie Claire, 7 June 2021
• Something has happened—the live capture of a personality, if not a soul—but it was engendered by a job, not by a divination.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• For others, dispelling the negative stereotypes of divination has become a tool of self-healing during a time of loss and trauma.
  — Stephanie Long, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2021
• For Scottsdale resident Michelle Hall, 41, tarot is her divination tool.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
• Further suggestions include the cup formations being used in some way for divination; or for the sorting and storage of pearls; or as systems to compute the time and tides.
  — Dimitris Sideridis, CNN, 22 Nov. 2021
• The Aztecs used these hallucinogenic seeds in divination ceremonies meant to communicate with their gods.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 May 2024
• There is also a long history of shamanism in Korean politics—leaders have long sought out shamans, who were traditionally well regarded for their powers of divination and truth-telling.
  — Katharine H.s. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2016

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024