How to Use healer in a Sentence
healer
noun-
For healers and herbalists, the stakes were high; the wrong plant or preparation could result in death.
— Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018 -
The first will feature three energy healers blessing the space.
— Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018 -
By late afternoon, despite the presence of healers and sages, kombucha and bone broth, spirits are flagging.
— Karen Helle, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018 -
Faith healers have long been sought out in Rohingya society to treat physical and mental ailments.
— Rishabh R. Jain, The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018 -
Earlier this year, Khan married faith healer Bushra Maneka.
— Munir Ahmed, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018 -
Antmann’s black-and-white photos of Mayan healers show a way of life that may be on the way out, as their world is diminished by climate change and modernization.
— Susan Dunne, courant.com, 23 June 2018 -
There’ll be a visit to a traditional Balinese healer and a trek up an active volcano where a guide will cook a meal using steam vents from the volcano.
— Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018 -
Endless Sea, Blue Sky, Celestial—remind us of the ultimate healer (the ocean).
— Marisa Spyker, ajc, 13 July 2018 -
This was meant to bolster a physician’s scientific credibility at a time when many practising healers were quacks, charlatans and frauds.
— The Economist, 28 June 2018 -
This mismatch between her underlying vocation (healer) and her overarching job function (technician) is what fries her heart and soul.
— Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018 -
Adora slowly poisoned Marian and was, as Sharp Objects explains, more concerned with being seen as a healer or savior.
— Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 20 Aug. 2018 -
Imam Ahmed Aboubadria is a healer of the soul, not the body.
— Jean Hopfensperger, Star Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021 -
By nature Biden is a healer and a bridge-builder, not a change agent.
— Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 9 Nov. 2020 -
Porter seemed to always be there as a greeter, a healer.
— Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 21 Nov. 2019 -
Movement is a tool and a healer, but even that changed last year.
— Shauna Harrison, SELF, 5 Jan. 2021 -
One version of the story goes that Paeon, known as the healer of the gods, used a peony to treat a wound for Zeus.
— Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2021 -
To be some sort of fixer and healer to those who feel broken.
— Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023 -
Virgo is the healer of the zodiac and cares deeply about those around them.
— Emily Simone, Allure, 29 Dec. 2021 -
Even for those who have made it, the daily path of a new-age healer isn’t paved in rose-colored quartz.
— Tatiana Boncompagni, Marie Claire, 7 June 2021 -
She is seen, by her subscribers, as both a truth-teller and a healer.
— Amelia Tait, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019 -
Her friends take her to a healer for an exorcism, which doesn’t work.
— Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2021 -
Biden sought to cast himself as a healer and the president as a divider.
— Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2020 -
But in looking for a piece of herself, to use one healer’s phrase, Yoder is kind enough to bring us all along.
— Longreads, 14 July 2023 -
The leader and healer of the group, Ajak (Salma Hayek) is the only person who talks to Arishem about their missions.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 9 Nov. 2021 -
Music has been used since our ancestors as a healer, as a way to get through pain.
— Taylor Mims, Billboard, 3 Dec. 2020 -
So Raven to The Young and the Restless followed, as did a career as a tantric energy healer.
— Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2022 -
The Black guy who can make race a little less scary to talk about, who says that humor can be a healer, not just a minefield.
— al, 7 Mar. 2021 -
The healer had to be part of the itinerary, along with the spa treatments, hikes in the red rocks, and other activities.
— Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2022 -
These ceremonies occur at night under the guidance of a healer with candles, flowers, incense and an altar with Catholic images.
— Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024 -
Each day, my nomadic guides shared the hotel’s holistic program The Architects of Life, a weekly schedule of wellness experiences led by visiting master guides and healers.
— Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 16 May 2024
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