How to Use aura in a Sentence

aura

noun
  • The monastery perched high on a mountaintop had an aura of unreality and mystery about it.
  • This is, come on, there's gotta be some aura in these walls.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2022
  • In his first year on the Tour in 2011, Bradley witnessed Woods’ aura in person for the first time.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • What Swift has to offer, at this point, is an aura of cool.
    Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024
  • The aura around him, the sizzle in his wake, still hasn’t left Odell Beckham Jr.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
  • With his good-boy-next-door aura, this 18-year-old artist brings a fresh and distinct vibe to the genre.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 27 July 2022
  • At the club’s entrance on West 21st, a balmy aura of sage seeps through its glass doors and onto the street.
    Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But the close call cost Ford much of the aura of his incumbency.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Does the aura that enfolds it not lie at the rotten root of the story of Lydia Tár?
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
  • There was no mystique or aura that could change this game.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Daley expects the venue to embody the aura that has fueled the trend.
    Josh Glicksman, Billboard, 13 May 2024
  • She is backlit by the L.A. sun, whose rays create an aura above her head.
    Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • So what you’re left behind with is sort of the aura of that history.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The different auras as well as eras Laufey straddles could be seen in her costume change at the Ford.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The results are a playful holiday twist on the aura nail trend.
    Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2023
  • If your eyes are the windows to your soul, your aura is a mirror to your energy.
    Monica Corcoran Harel, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The aura of the costuming for Daisy Jones & The Six is one of free-spiritedness, bohemia, and a dash of wild rock 'n' roll.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 9 Mar. 2023
  • So seeing him, talking to him and living in his aura was great.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2023
  • How to do vampire nails: The most popular way to play it is with an aura design.
    Elle Turner, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2023
  • In 1979, when leadership of the paper passed to Katharine’s son Donald, the aura carried, too.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But the Redeemer came cloaked in the aura of a devil, with the seductive charisma of an antichrist.
    Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Their dance moves aligned with punk jostling, giving them the aura of cinema’s suave bad boys.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2024
  • It was built out of shimmery layers and gave it that Russian aura.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
  • There is an aura or sense that the person is generally down to earth.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The free track will include Woodworker Drums, three new jam tracks, an aura and two new emotes.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Lowe’s aura — along with that of Jordan, a burgeoning star — still looms large over the Utes program.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The first step was to research the band’s fashions over the years, but her aim was to interpret its aura rather than recreate past looks.
    Vogue, 26 May 2022
  • The 2022 model sees a redesign for the big bruiser, and while its aesthetics have changed, its aura has not.
    Nicholas Wallace, Car and Driver, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Adding to the aura of the auction item, this is believed to be the only Leia costume known to still exist from the original film.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
  • Named after the mystical seeing stones in The Lord of the Rings, Palantir sells the same aura of omniscience.
    TIME, 8 Feb. 2024

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