How to Use mystic in a Sentence

mystic

1 of 2 adjective

• She had a mystic vision while praying.
• Rohmer went on to write a series of books about a mystic named Dr. Fu Manchu.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 3 Sep. 2021
• The four girls had a kind of mystic and abstract presence.
  — Sasha Bonét, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2021
• Moiraine is a member of the all-female mystic order called the Aes Sedai.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• In Greek and many other ancient cultures, the amulet was worn to stave off mystic bad forces in the world.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2018
• Her three background singers matched the mystic vibe as well in floor length black dresses.
  — Bianca Brutus, PEOPLE.com, 22 Apr. 2022
• This new space seats 240 people, and the walls bear photos of the mystic society’s past queens.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 12 Feb. 2020
• Genre shows have no superpower or mystic spell to avoid the same doom.
  — Andrew A. Smith Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• Well, Linda still talks this way, and her words, for me, were like mystic chords of memory.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 July 2021
• There is a lot of that mystery and intrigue and mystic and atmosphere.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
• Or a jungle lodge in Africa where the gorillas and green, mystic lushness bring to mind Tarzan’s lost world.
  — Priscilla Eakeley, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2017
• This witch costume keeps it simple with a mystic purple skirt and hat.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2022
• She is considered a lady with a mystic smile that is a kind of sideway looks-up smile.
  — Sheila Sarrett, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• Taking refuge with their lover’s mystic cousin, Shams grapples with their complex sense of self.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• Benedict Cumberbatch is reprising his role as the master of the mystic arts while Jade Bartlett is still a writer on the project.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2020
• Two years ago, mystic societies pushed to keep the city from altering the Arena.
  — al, 2 Nov. 2021
• Then came the mega-bats in a skyscraper-high roost, and the ape-men slurped mystic Precambrian elixirs to get swoll for arena duels.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• The nation’s first mystic society would survive the next 50 years.
  — Kelly Kazek | [e-mail], al, 24 Dec. 2019
• The mystic feelings that users like Cote report — such as the loss of a sense of self, and the ability to set aside the past or think afresh about the future — are thought to arise from this reset of the DMN.
  — Steve Volk, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
• In the same stroke, the world, hitherto a flat disk, is refashioned as a globe, and the Undying Lands are removed to a mystic dimension of their own.
  — John Garth, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• Like the mystic swirl of a Mara Hoffman print realized in physical form.
  — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 14 May 2017
• He's seen here holding some kind of mystic artifact, the kind that litter Strange's Sanctum.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• These mystic lights dance across the sky and have enchanted our ancestors for centuries.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
• The fourth episode is arguably the highlight, an old-school episode of the week farce concerning the mystic arts being coopted by a C-rate stage magician.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• We are no longer used to the sort of self-effacement Faye practices and yet it is found in the mystic traditions of nearly all religions.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• But New Orleans’ mystic scene is vastly larger, and the city itself is a global tourism magnet.
  — al, 23 Feb. 2020
• Some questions have arisen in recent years on whether the mystic societies should fork out their own money to purchase the Civic Center.
  — al, 12 Sep. 2022
• Elena knows those laws do not quite apply here on her mystic grandmother’s land.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 21 Mar. 2022
• Some are turning to a 15th-century mystic poet for hope and guidance.
  — Kalpana Jain, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
• Whether for finances, career prospects, or even romance, many younger Americans are turning to the mystic and the spiritual—what skeptics would deem pseudoscience.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024

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mystic

2 of 2 noun

• What do these voices share with those of the Sufi mystics?
  — Aysha Khan, Houston Chronicle, 16 June 2018
• The mystics and statistics do not see the Sox making the playoffs.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• Photos of Pärt from his school days show the bearded mystic of now to have been then something of a jock.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• For 20 years, the mystic of Erykah Badu has left both men and women mesmerized.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2017
• If the call went out via coconut telegraph that these mystic sirens needed top-notch tunes for the evening, it was heard loud and clear.
  — The Masked Observer, AL.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• Kesha resumes her seat on the mystic’s throne and inhales.
  — Amy Rose Spiegel, SELF, 20 June 2023
• Wise died in 1948, but her legend as a Christian mystic has blossomed with time.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2019
• Then in 1969, Mr. Stowers met a mystic named Joseph Lukach and everything changed.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
• Lewis likened Penrose to a Rasputin, the Russian mystic often blamed for the downfall of the czar in Russia a century ago.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2020
• Leslie Mann portrays the spirit of a woman summoned by a mystic who's played by Judi Dench.
  — David Lindquist, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2019
• That, of course, explains the great gallery of Catholic mystics all through the history of the faith, including Meister Eckhart.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Over the next century, mystics and philosophers continued to expand the role of tarot.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 26 Feb. 2018
• June 21 is the summer solstice, aka the perfect occasion to get in touch with your inner mystic.
  — refinery29.com, 20 June 2018
• What really makes a product mystic, though—as witches put it—differs from witch to witch.
  — Glamour, 31 Oct. 2018
• Pierre Klossowski, in his 1947 Sade, mon prochain, claimed that Sade was a man deeply influenced by Christian mystics.
  — Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2020
• The electro-mystic misery of the waves alarm thirteen times in two hours could fairly be described as sonic battery.
  — Maggie Lange, Bon Appetit, 28 Dec. 2017
• And quite a few Twitter mystics took Teigen up on her witchcraft prompt and opted for more esoteric cures.
  — Evelyn Wang, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2017
• In a side chapel, a big man in black kneels in mystic communion with Santa Muerte, a skeleton dressed in white and blue who resembles a cross between a bride and the Virgin Mary.
  — David Hammond, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• His own work reflects a lifelong love of reading in many genres, and his books brim with the testimonies of poets, artists, and mystics who hymn the delights of sentience.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
• At home, Tamariz trades his usual Panama hat for a brimless cap, giving him the aura of an ancient mystic.
  — Shuja Haider, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• Mustafa Ali is a bearded, secretive man who describes himself as a mystic.
  — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2017
• Members of the nobility whispered plans to murder the mystic.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• Sitting down with Beth Bugdaycay in her gorgeous Foundrae store isn’t unlike an encounter with a mystic.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2018
• Weakland delivered the final anointing to the famed Trappist monk, writer and mystic.
  — Annysa Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2022
• There’s something special in the desert, though: blue sky on the barren horizon, new species round every canyon, mystics of rumor, a wolfman with glowing red eyes sipping the strong stuff.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• Penetrating radar equipment tested the earth to locate the mausoleum of the great mystic who published one of the first works of Hassidic thought, hiding just beneath the surface.
  — Pierpaolo Mittica, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2019
• Nothing captures the essence of the genre better than an outdoor outlet where the music’s natural mystic can frolic freely.
  — Dasun Imanuel, Essence, 15 Aug. 2019
• It is intimated that Rajneesh is a hypnotist as much as a mystic.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2018
• Learn about the glacier’s unique magnetic field, which serves as a pilgrimage site for mystics and others who practice Norse paganism.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Our shores are an oddly fertile breeding ground for all manner of cultists, mystics and new religious movements.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2019

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024