How to Use karma in a Sentence

karma

noun
  • She believes that helping people produces good karma.
  • And the prize for best karma has got to go to Lindsey Ofcacek.
    Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 17 June 2019
  • The thing about the smug is that their karma can sometimes be sudden.
    latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • Sounds like a pretty rad way to cash in some good karma this week, no?
    Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Lovers of the Aibo might be tempted to see karma at work.
    Jonathan Soble, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • There’s this thought that a character should get his karma at the end of that episode.
    Aamina Khan, Teen Vogue, 19 Apr. 2019
  • There is no need to worry because the Pats have Belichick and Brady and the good karma.
    Dan Shaughnessy, Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • What has happened this week looks like karma on a grand scale.
    Henry Porter, The Hive, 6 Dec. 2017
  • France went on to crash out in the group stage, reminding the world that karma is real.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 14 June 2018
  • Surely, that karma would wash over the place, and the Bruins would respond in kind.
    Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • That's some instant karma for Aneesa, who just got screwed over by Josh.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 2 July 2020
  • My years of good travel karma with luggage and rental cars had come to an abrupt and rude end.
    Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • Arizona didn’t need any last-second karma to beat the Huskies 69-59.
    Doug Feinberg, courant.com, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Arizona didn’t need any last-second karma to beat the Huskies, 69-59.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2021
  • If there’s such a thing as karma, perhaps the A’s creep a bit closer to Houston this year.
    Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The Falcons overcame a late rally from the Barons (19-12), who hoped for some good karma.
    Matt Szabo, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
  • Throughout the new track, Swift alludes to karma and the idea that those who have wronged her have a storm coming for them.
    Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Stay focused keep it pro and good karma will follow you.
    Daniel Mano, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2017
  • Suffice to say, the party comes with a lot of positive karma.
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 4 Jan. 2018
  • This was my fault, my karma, my punishment, my bad body.
    Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 17 July 2019
  • Perhaps in time Mr Thar will come to rely less on karma, and arrange a safer future with a tap on his phone.
    The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Call it karma, call it luck, call it fate — but Auburn hasn’t left Baton Rouge a winner since lighting that fire.
    Alex Hickey, ajc, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Others expressed hope that karma would pay a visit to the suspect.
    Mark Young, miamiherald, 11 Dec. 2017
  • In fact, Grange halls seem to have a preservationist karma.
    David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The Rams went 1-2 in the regular season when wearing those white jerseys, which wouldn’t seem to bring good karma.
    Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Funny and stylish, the video sees karma personified as a jealous, hard to read lover that Daye just can’t seem to get over.
    Sydney Scott, Essence, 22 Nov. 2019
  • As the game went along, there was more rocking back and forth, more changing of seats to influence karma, more biting of nails.
    Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 10 May 2018
  • But apparently the thief still had some good karma left.
    Leah Asmelash and Jeanne Bonner, CNN, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The creator ecosystem is tight-knit and people talk — karma has a funny way of working out.
    Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 30 May 2018
  • This wasn’t a car accident or risky behavior or karma for any of the abhorrent things teen boys do.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 May 2022

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