How to Use incantation in a Sentence

incantation

noun

• Clyde breaks from his incantation just long enough to yell.
  — Natania Barron, WIRED, 27 July 2011
• There’s power in the recitation of ancient names and the act of incantation, karakia, is central to Māori culture.
  — Stacey Morrison, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2021
• And has continued to be, even since her last incantation, which was 1999.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 31 May 2023
• The ground in front of the bench is worn smooth by years of visitors’ feet, and the tree is just steps from the incantations of an active nest of a Cooper’s hawk and red-breasted nut hatch.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 13 May 2017
• When ‘Witchcraft’ comes, there’s that eastern-y lead sound, which feels like an incantation or the occult.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 13 June 2023
• The names were an incantation, a way of proving her love for her father who loved real estate.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Cut, 14 May 2017
• Said Mohammed turns to oils, spices and incantations when he is called on to hunt down and expel a jinni that is causing harm to humans.
  — Justin Fornal, National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2016
• Said Mohammed turns to oils, spices and incantations when he is called on to hunt down and expel a jinni that is causing harm to humans.
  — Justin Fornal, National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2016
• Each one formed a part of her daily incantation to be present and open to all that came her way, however difficult.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019
• In its lighter, fluffier incantation, it’s cooked in a 2:1 ratio of liquid to millet.
  — Ashleigh Spitza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2018
• Magic, the process of changing reality to your will through incantations, is done in this realm.
  — Helen A. Berger, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2023
• Like most of the hundreds of children’s books, poems, and songs Brown wrote during her short life, Goodnight Moon is less a story than an incantation.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 12 Jan. 2017
• As the lip-smacking, incantation-hurling Winifred, Midler gorges herself anew on the scenery and sometimes blasts it with lightning bolts.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• Three children evacuated from the Blitz complicate her life and the plot, which centers on a quest for the most potent incantation of them all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• In different times and places, verses were uttered in unchanging words and rhythms, evoking the spell of an incantation or a curse.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
• Yet the absence even of ritual incantation was both telling and alarming.
  — Ruth Marcus, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2017
• Though not technically a book, these incantations are collectively known as the Book of the Dead.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• On the title track, Mr. Jaar’s low voice sounds like an incantation, or Gregorian chant.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 19 July 2021
• In a sense, the novel fulfills its first line's proposition: as an incantation of an artist's name and, by implication, an artist's way.
  — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• Hauge-Zavaleta has a litany beyond breath work and incantations: place one hand on your heart, tap a finger on your collarbone, splash cold water on your face, call a friend.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
• And the word that Zelensky repeats like an incantation?
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• There's not a spell or hex or incantation strong enough to overturn Netflix's decision.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 22 Feb. 2018
• With the sun, Venus and Saturn hyping your work station, a simple mission statement can work like an incantation.
  — Minerva, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
• Every man sitting in a new barber’s chair is praying and chanting an incantation to haircut Jesus to keep them safe in his arms.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Oct. 2017
• My own siren moment, this shirt imbued with an incantation that pulls people toward me.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2022
• Their incantations thundered through the walls of the Fall River Public Library, where two dozen children — 4 through 14 — sat in a semicircle on the carpet, poised for story time.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Yum Mole: ancient sauce made of chili peppers, spices, chocolate and magic incantations.
  — Zoe Li, CNN, 2 May 2023
• From that point on, conservatives followed the script, repeating the phrase like an incantation.
  — Barack Obama, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• His words double as incantations, invoked to confer legitimacy and a sheen of artistry on any he that utters them.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 July 2023
• While much of Europe basked on the beach, elaborate rites and unfamiliar incantations could be overheard in the French capital.
  — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017

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