How to Use supernatural in a Sentence
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And yet, the effect of a full moon on sleep isn’t just supernatural.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 16 Aug. 2024
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That, to me, is the reason for all the artifice — the obvious high style of my books and their use of the supernatural.
—Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2021
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At times, the movie has the moody feel of a supernatural suspense thriller, not a comic-book-style showdown.
—Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
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Columns of light pierced its jagged crevasses, bathing the walls in supernatural shades of jade and pewter.
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2021
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The corpse of someone who died by violence was thought to bleed in the presence of his or her killer, a kind of supernatural proof of crime.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
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No one is safe from the supernatural forces outside of their tents.
—Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022
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The film also used the midnight sun and the changing light of the seasons to give it an almost supernatural look.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 29 Nov. 2021
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One of them gets too close and begins to make his life hell, and the kid has to utilize all his supernatural mojo to save his loved ones.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
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The kids aren’t all right in this creepy 2021 supernatural thriller from Norway.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2022
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There’s an abundance of twists, big fight and action scenes, and a veneer of the supernatural.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 27 Jan. 2022
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The creepy vibes suggest the studio is plunging into the depths of the supernatural.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 21 Mar. 2022
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The ghostly ringing of the bell is just one of the supernatural effects in a show where at least one creature goes airborne.
—Bo Emerson, ajc, 9 Nov. 2021
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Each man needs guidance — and gets it — from a supernatural source.
—Peter J. Travers, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
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There was good and evil in the world—not in the colloquial sense but in the literal, supernatural sense.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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The film is designed as a supernatural fable that blends with the classic body horror, and the revenge thriller.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 May 2024
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How does the supernatural retain its hold on the theater world?
—New York Times, 7 June 2022
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Fight supernatural creatures on the high seas and hunt for Davy Jones’ treasure.
—Marc Bona, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
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For Chekhov, all-too-human rage and passion are about as supernatural as the world ever gets.
—Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
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Known as the Bekora stones, the pebbles are thought to have supernatural powers.
—Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
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This shampoo is supernatural and thus a great pick for cleansing and maintaining a full head of healthy and shiny hair.
—Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Apr. 2022
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Though her universe was supernatural, the emotions which ran through the world of Buffy and her friends felt acutely real.
—Holly Thomas, CNN, 22 Jan. 2022
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Then peel the star off for supernatural skin, just like PinkPantheress, all day long.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 25 Aug. 2023
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In something of a departure for del Toro, this is not a horror film or a story of the supernatural.
—Moira MacDonald, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2021
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This supernatural horror film gets your heart rate up with some of the most unpredictable jolts.
—Leigh Hewett, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
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In the 1930s, a boatman on the Paraná River kidnapped and devoured children in the name of a supernatural being, El Horario.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
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But the place is steeped in bloody rock lore, Grohl gets possessed and the group battles supernatural forces in order to both finish their record and survive.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
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And the body is transformed once a supernatural passenger is on board.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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Kids are being peer-pressured to take a hit of supernatural powers that none of them can control.
—WIRED, 29 July 2023
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The intrigue: The gory movie follows a couple on the rocks who move to a quiet town and encounter a supernatural force that takes control of their bodies.
—Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 6 Feb. 2025
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The film follows a couple who, after moving to the countryside, have a supernatural encounter that tests their relationship.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
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