How to Use witchery in a Sentence

witchery

noun

• There are all these girls that are into witchery and tarot and crystals.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 Apr. 2017
• Circe is her name, and witchery is the offense that has gotten her exiled to a remote and hilly place called Aiaia.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Nevena is transformed into a witch by Maria, who casts her young quarry aside after the girl proves inept at witchery.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
• Like the original, the story line centers on a group of young women who don’t fit in, finding solace in one another (and witchery).
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
• Just after the Solar Eclipse, the Sun enters the woodsy witchery of Virgo, the cosmos’ original self-seductress.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 19 Aug. 2017
• Her family took her to a bhopa, or shaman, who quickly detected witchery.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
• As feminism becomes the realm of the corporate-speak, many of those in search of outside power are arriving at witches and witchery.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Quartz, 31 Oct. 2019
• In that whirlwind, some 400 people were implicated in the ungodly practice of witchery.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• Other groups feel Trump requires magical protection, and they’ve been spurred on by the rising online presence of anti-Trump witchery.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 29 Oct. 2020
• She is accused of murder, witchery, or both, and his terrified deputies train shotguns at the teen despite her evident helplessness.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Aug. 2021
• This is a film about witchery of a sort, though Ezwan has no interest in the kind of over-the-top content usually associated with Southeast Asian films about malevolent spirits.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
• If that’s the level of mystical mysterioso we’re headed towards, then everything else is on the table, too, in terms of time travel, witchery, and whatever else.
  — Kelly McClure, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2021
• The craze for witchery displays an encouragingly wide understanding that for social change to happen someone has to feel threatened.
  — Kelsea Stahler, Teen Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018
• Trained in combat by his father’s henchmen and in mental witchery by his mother, Lady Jessica, Paul masters his harsh surroundings and survives attempts on his life.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021
• Rebecca is arrested because neighbors assume mothers pass on witchery to their daughters.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
• This material witchery is possible thanks to a series of capacitive sensors that are embedded into the concrete.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 2 July 2018
• Each iteration slots into the complex order of things known as Stevie Nicks; each era separable but contiguous, all routed through her mild witchery and intense American mysticism.
  — Jill Spivey Caddell, Longreads, 26 May 2022
• Besides witchery, paganism draws from traditions largely outside the Abrahamic faiths.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
• Baby becomes really fantastical, with witchery and cult societies.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 22 June 2021
• Argento’s Suspiria used its aesthetic to celebrate a witchery that was inherently otherworldly and stylized, producing a rapturous symphony of violence for its own beautiful sake.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024