How to Use the occult in a Sentence

the occult

noun

• Strip away the occult mystery from a vampire’s actions and what you’re left with is something much uglier.
  — James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
• Robert Eggers is continuing his cult films of the occult.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2024
• Gogo Akopyan turned her hobby studying the occult into a business three years ago, and now gives readings for up to $150.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Born and raised in Glendale, Akopyan, 32, has been studying astrology and the occult for more than 10 years.
  — Emerson Drewes, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• When ‘Witchcraft’ comes, there’s that eastern-y lead sound, which feels like an incantation or the occult.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 13 June 2023
• Here are three cognitive biases that play a role in guiding our belief in the occult.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• Thinking the occult expert cum horror star and the high priest would be simpatico, Davis hosted a dinner party that went off the rails.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
• This is a magic club in Salem, a city long associated with witches, black magic, and the occult.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
• And when a worse fate befalls Owen, Richard and Juliette retreat into themselves — and into the occult — in separate ways.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
• The only way to save it, Delroy believes, is to air an extraordinary Halloween episode about the occult in the middle of sweeps season.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2024
• Rose was a professor of something (the occult?), burnt out on the cycle of publish or perish — a life that encouraged her and her colleagues to make more noise than meaning.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
• But as fear of the occult grips the town of Happy Hollow, the innocent teens become prime suspects, and a powerful force takes root that threatens everyone.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2024
• The appeal of visiting places connected to witchcraft goes beyond just an interest in the occult.
  — Jennifer Stavros, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
• My inexplicable interest in vampires, ghosts and the occult prompted tías to pray over me.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• There were display ads scattered throughout from a publisher specializing in the occult, and a full-page promotion for a book about the joys of nitrous oxide.
  — Sean Howe, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2023
• Gordon’s most noteworthy casting was surely Orson Welles, who has a penchant for the occult in the horror flick Necromancy.
  — Rhett Bartlett, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023
• Numerology is defined as the study of the occult significance of numbers.
  — Francesca Murdaca, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
• Among them is Zamata’s character, a potions witch who runs an organic skincare apothecary of sorts when not dabbling in the occult.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Rumors have haunted the place for years, its owner a titan of American industry, with a strange fascination in the occult and the paranormal.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Finally, McDonnell had to put the whole package in the language of the physical sciences to avoid any unfortunate connection with the occult.
  — Susan Lahey, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2023
• Some are more realistic and creepy while others dabble in the occult, but all are literary and compelling—the best of both worlds, especially during spooky season.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 31 July 2023
• The result is a mysterious film that dabbles in the occult and has been engaging audiences at festival stops like South by Southwest and Overlook.
  — William Earl, Variety, 19 July 2024
• Indiana Jones can be called a lot of things — professor of archeology, expert on the occult, obtainer of rare antiquities — but hero is not one of them.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 27 June 2023
• Season 1 is undoubtedly the best, a cryptic and chilly serial killer thriller with dashes of the occult and supernatural.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2023
• Over the past few months, a twisted killer, a nonagenarian avenger and a talk show host with a deadly interest in the occult have reinvigorated an indie film business that had been in a prolonged slump.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
• But dual interests in the scientific discoveries of her time and the mysteries of the spiritual world drove her toward the occult.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• But horror shows are a hard sell especially on broadcast networks like NBC (Hannibal might have taken up all the oxygen there) and the occult series never got picked up for a second season.
  — Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
• But viewers had already fallen in love with Lafayette for his wit and his heart, not to mention his all-around irrepressible fabulousness, which made his turn toward the occult a lot easier to accept.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
• Any student of the occult understands the power of identifying demonic names.
  — TIME, 28 Oct. 2023
• Her interest in mysteries and the occult began in the metaphysical section at her local Borders.
  — Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025