How to Use sigil in a Sentence

sigil

noun
  • There is more to come, for the researchers of Tevanne have not gotten as far as the old alphabet of sigils.
    Tom Shippey, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Five realizes that the sigil is hidden in a pattern of seven stars on the floor of the lobby.
    Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 22 June 2022
  • The Order token moves up, and any player with a sigil on the card gains any cube rewards shown on the success side.
    Keith Law, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Ricky VigilGetty Images Doesn't that look like a dragon and a house sigil??
    Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 29 May 2019
  • Meanwhile, on the posts that mark every passing mile of the trail, a traditional image of a turtle stands as a sigil for the Maah Daah Hey.
    Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The Democrats and Beltway media elites are back at it, driven to skin Trump alive, either through impeachment or just to hold the flayed man aloft as their sigil for the 2018 elections.
    John Kass, Twin Cities, 1 June 2017
  • Reggie informs everyone that the key to saving the world is finding the sigil, which is hidden somewhere in the hotel.
    Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 22 June 2022
  • The sigil is said to encourage the articulation of thoughts and feelings and aid in making music.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • An American eagle as predator, the whole world its prey, was the sigil of an agency that could not even conceive of a public readership.
    Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 11 May 2020
  • It is divided by the upside-down V of the Greek lambda, the sigil falsely believed to have been painted on Spartan shields at Thermopylae.
    Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The machine starts extracting energy from those standing on the sigil.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2022
  • Also, get excited because HBO shared a brief sigils tease.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 9 Mar. 2017
  • The central piece is an abstracted lion, harkening back to the Lannister sigil.
    Olivia Martin, Town & Country, 18 May 2019
  • And each bottle is covered in dragons — from the label and bottle cap adorned with House Targaryen's sigil, to the corks, which are adorned with either a dragon egg, a dragon head, or a dragon tail.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The sigil is one of a few differences viewers will pick up on, including the noticeably different Iron Throne.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 July 2022
  • Other elements of her costumes in season eight reflect that: Her wardrobe incorporates fur and fish scales, which tie back to the Stark and Tully family sigils.
    Glamour, 23 Apr. 2019
  • Krakow shushed everybody from the stage and introduced the group, then directed everyone's attention to a jagged geometric sigil on a poster-size sheet of paper hanging on the wall behind Criss.
    Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
  • There's also a teaser, featuring audio from past seasons and scary stone renditions of the various house sigils clashing and then crumbling, followed by a close-up of a White Walker's eye.
    Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Appropriately, a direwolf was also the sigil of House Stark.
    Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The locations shown in the graphics often reflect which sites are shown in a particular episode, and even house sigils may change depending on which family is occupying a certain landmark at a certain the time.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Apr. 2019
  • Yet the rat is the natural sigil of New York City: maritime, hungry, brave, ingenious, ambitious, unsentimental, disloyal, charismatic, sociable, adaptable, capable of violence, possessed of a nocturnal glamour and feral beauty.
    Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • As Armenian symbolic anthropologist Levon Abrahamian explains, sigils on ancient figurines illustrate that people from the region revered the image of the tree long before the crystallization of a coherent Armenian national identity.
    Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 12 July 2018

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