How to Use priestess in a Sentence

priestess

noun

• Ged gives the girl-priestess her first glimpse of the world beyond the tombs.
  — Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 6 Feb. 2018
• The priestess hid her gris-gris in this room to help cure Kate.
  — NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• The priestess responds that there isn't: Socrates is the wisest of them all.
  — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• If found guilty, the priestess was buried alive, with a lamp and a little food, and left to the judgment of Vesta.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2020
• Marie LaFleur is a voodoo priestess who lives in New Orleans.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 1 Feb. 2020
• Calm down Madonna fans, this is a shrine to the Virgin Mary, not your pop priestess.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2022
• The book opens with a startling image: Acilde, the maid to a Santería priestess, hears the doorbell ring.
  — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
• Since a priestess was a sacred person, her blood could not be shed.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2020
• That goes to the princess Amneris, who begs softly for peace, and a chorus of priests and priestesses.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 23 June 2019
• First, there are her obvious ties to Melisandre, who is a priestess of R'hllor.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 29 Apr. 2019
• After the jump, three of Kalashnikov’s high priestesses of peace prepare to usher in 2010.
  — Nathan Hodge, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2009
• But her self-presentation—the high priestess of the high desert in crepe dresses and dirty work boots—made her an icon.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 15 June 2017
• The woman, a priestess named Leïla, then appears in their village.
  — Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2022
• My room, the William Winters Room, is haunted by the spirit of a voodoo priestess brought in to save a child named Kate from yellow fever.
  — NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• The priestess is believed to have been close to ancient Egyptian royals of the Fifth Dynasty.
  — Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
• But, there are plenty of fashion gods — high priests and priestesses — who disagree with me.
  — Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
• By the end of the day, attendees had gathered around the fire pit for a ritual led by Voodoo priestess Lilith Dorsey.
  — Shahrzad Rasekh, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024
• Chris Hemsworth returns in the title role, battling an evil priestess played by Cate Blanchett.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• The writer appeared in the movie as the priestess performing the pagan wedding.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• The priestess shifted position, walked around the mirror and tried again.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
• She is dressed in all white as part of her commitment to the process of becoming ordained as a priestess in Santería.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
• Prepare to either sit on the floor on the ground level, or stand at the edges of the Guggenheim’s rounded atrium, then wait for your priestess to arrive.
  — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
• To access it, approach the oracle in the temple by the river and answer the priestess’s three questions.
  — Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 14 May 2022
• Weapons were also found, which may indicate the woman was a high ranking priestess or a Moche ruler.
  — Fox News, 6 July 2017
• Eden has teamed with Kathleen Bakula, the high priestess of Mobili-Tea — a mobile high tea service.
  — Carol Ann Davidson, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
• The priestesses who tended the oracle at Delphi were known as Melissae.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Arms control’s high priests and priestesses, and key senators such as Joe Biden and John Kerry, were apoplectic.
  — John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Alfre Woodard plays Paris, a priestess and advisor to Baba Voss.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• In other words, the possibility that the mummy was that of the Egyptian priestess Mer-Neith-it-es could not be ruled out.
  — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
• In another of the room’s works, an ancient artist has reimagined the Greek god Apollo trying to seduce the Trojan priestess Cassandra.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024