How to Use ritualistic in a Sentence

ritualistic

adjective

• The ritualistic cheer brought a smile to the face of Robert Jasper.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2021
• The Brew combines some of the ritualistic elements of pour over with the ease of a drip machine.
  — Carina Finn, Bon Appétit, 26 Jan. 2024
• The jar may have been a ritualistic offering, and the building could have been a cultic center.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• In some sort of ritualistic pattern that also had meaning at the site.
  — Becky Cooper, Town & Country, 10 Nov. 2020
• The ginger teams with the ferric, iron flavor of the blood for an effect that goes down like exotic, ritualistic chili.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 12 Apr. 2022
• On the ritualistic power of beauty Growing up, there was a big focus on Ayurvedic beauty and self-care.
  — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2023
• Now, after shaking the opponent’s hand and cycling through his ritualistic hopping, Dixon hears Mull in the back of his head.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2023
• Themes are stated with ritualistic panache, like when a cunning billionaire in a bathrobe talks up Thomas Hobbes.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022
• The power part is what often gets edited out during the ritualistic replays of King’s speech.
  — John Blake, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
• Like the beach hut, the residence is cluttered with ritualistic symbols, candles, and creepy books.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• The teen trio then stayed in the house for about half an hour, trying to make the scene seem ritualistic by placing a Bible upon Rod’ corpse, further mutilating his body, and putting a knife in Lois’s dead hand.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 12 Mar. 2024
• The circles lent a gently ritualistic spirit to the pieces, as with a twisted wrap crop-top that was paired with low-rise black pants, then spun into a hoop at the back, the fabric left to trail in a dramatic train.
  — Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2023
• Ancient Maya may have traveled deep into these caves to conduct ritualistic sacrifices to Chac, the god of rain.
  — Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2014
• There was pyro hot enough to feel on your skin from 50 yards away, explosions loud enough to hurt your head even with earplugs in, and the ritualistic moments where Gene Simmons breathes fire and Paul Stanley zip-lines across the floor of the arena.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
• Many of the practices in Celestial churches tend to be ritualistic.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 28 July 2022
• There’s something that’s so ritualistic about it, and grounding.
  — Dessane Lopez Cassell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Nevertheless, sweetness and fat were enough to lend cakes an aura of the extraordinary and earn them a ritualistic role in our lives.
  — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• The candle’s purpose is to create a ritualistic cue to stay present, let go of overwork, unwind, and tap into your creativity.
  — Karin Eldor, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Her aid to customers comes in the form of limpias, or ritualistic spiritual cleanses on people, homes and businesses.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2023
• Towards the end, The Closer takes on a strange, almost ritualistic quality, as Chappelle tells his story of the tragedy, cheered on by an audience of simpering fans.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
• Quite who put the hit on the yakuza guy is less important than the baroque, ritualistic way Boksoon is going to off him, first giving the unarmed man a sword to defend himself with, then selecting for herself a cheap DIY store axe.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
• As tensions in the compound rise with the disappearance of one of the white teens, the ritualistic groupthink encouraged at Los Pinos yields abhorrent consequences.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
• And now, with the Magic joining in the ritualistic throwing of ludicrous dollars toward a tall man, Los Angeles seemed less inevitable.
  — Jeff Pearlman, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• The Next Chapter will see terror rise on the Wind River reservation as a series of ritualistic murders remain unsolved.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2023
• The result is a barely audible but palpable shimmer around the beats that bleeds into the pauses — a subtle heightening of the ritualistic nature of the piece, and an indelible record of Schick’s life over the past couple of years.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2022
• During the call, Lingo's mother told officials her daughter killed her dog — a terrier mix — as part of a ritualistic sacrifice, the complaint states, per the outlets.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2022
• After learning of Ballinger’s involvement from Fry’s diary, Landor killed and mutilated him in the same way to make the murders appear ritualistic.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 6 Jan. 2023
• She’s come to view theme parks as vital spaces, and almost compares Disneyland to ritualistic endeavors such as going to church.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
• What is clear is Schrader’s devotion to his own tropes, which will strike his critics as repetitive and his admirers as suitably ritualistic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• Their bodies firm up and swagger into a ritualistic circle of savagery.
  — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024