How to Use high priestess in a Sentence
high priestess
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With Budapest serving as high priestess, the coven grew.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2021
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On the back of the disk, an inscription identifies her as Enheduanna, a high priestess and the daughter of King Sargon.
—Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2022
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Owens has always had an aesthetic riffing on the garb of Ancient Egypt, with togas, drapes and high priestess styles gracing his runways.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 23 June 2022
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Light rain and clouds forced the high priestess, played by actress Katerina Lechou, to deploy Monday's backup flame instead of the reflector used to light the flame with the sun's rays.
—Karolos Grohmann, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2017
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Dallas native Erykah Badu was the high priestess of that sound, which wove together classic soul music and hip-hop aesthetics.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 19 Oct. 2022
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Centrism is Germany’s civil religion now, and Mrs. Merkel—known as Mutti, or mom—its high priestess.
—Josef Joffe, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2017
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Or that the oldest songwriter known by name is Enheduanna, a high priestess of Ur in Sumeria?
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
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Inspired by Gaynor, the high priestess of the discotheque, Gloria’s case and crown sport black spinels, pink and yellow sapphires, and diamonds, making a striking contrast against a dial plate of hematite, onyx and pink opal.
—Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Dec. 2020
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While there, an Osun high priestess showed Thompson two objects with great spiritual value: a dagger and a fan.
—CNN, 17 June 2021
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Hieroglyphs indicated its occupant was Mer-Neith-it-es, a high priestess from the temple of the goddess Sekhmet.
—Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
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With spirits and the divine on board, goop finally has the missing ingredients to cement lifestyle as the new religion with Paltrow as high priestess.
—Jennifer Gunter, STAT, 17 Jan. 2020
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One, the high priestess of a Wiccan church and a surgical coordinator at an organ procurement agency, is pictured in her scrubs.
—Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
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As the Nobel Prize–winning economist and high priestess of informality Elinor Ostrom established, the peer-to-peer mechanisms at the core of both models can be highly resilient.
—Antara Haldar, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2022
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Ever since its 1831 premiere, sopranos have lined up to have a go at Bellini’s Druid high priestess to test their vocal mettle, because to successfully meet all of Norma’s challenges is to claim absolute vocal mastery.
—Eric Skelly, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2018
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The legend of Simone de Beauvoir—of how an obedient Catholic schoolgirl cast off her rigid, patriarchal upbringing to become the high priestess of existential feminism—is often narrated as a love story.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
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