How to Use rune in a Sentence

rune

noun

• Even so, the presence of the Tyr rune on the team’s sweater design was enough to raise alarms.
  — Richard Martyn-Hemphill, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• But the sweater features a symbol known as the Tyr rune, which neo-Nazis want to claim as their own.
  — Richard Martyn-Hemphill, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• Spoilers also abound in Midsommar, in the form of runes.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 5 July 2019
• Schultz wears a necklace with the Viking rune Uruz, another reminder of his journey in the past year.
  — Dave Melton, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
• With runes on her face, the color of her hair and all these rituals, Mavka is a new heroine.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 12 June 2023
• Shearling collar, rustic weapon hilt with a shoddy rune: Must be a Weasley.
  — Vulture, 3 Feb. 2022
• But even now, League’s world—stuff about wars over magical runes on the planet Runeterra—isn’t the draw that brings fans to fill stadiums in the thousands.
  — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
• The rune was found in fall 2021 in a grave excavation west of Oslo, reports The Associated Press.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 17 Jan. 2023
• There are also reusable runes scattered throughout the map that let the player break the usual movement rules in a number of ways.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
• The result is striking: two fantastic images of his new, rune-like symbol for the brand, which was transformed into two rafts and then shot from above.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2021
• Splashes of color, bubbles, tubes, machinery, and glowing rocks covered with runes flow across the room in response to what the telescope has found.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• And outside of combat, Atreus contributes other unique skills that are vital to progress, like translating Norse runes that Kratos can’t read.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 18 Apr. 2018
• Dissatisfied with that response, some activists alleged that the stage design where speakers addressed the crowd mirrored the Odal rune, a symbol used by the Nazi regime.
  — Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
• Several of its runes are either ancient forms that had been discarded by the 14th century or more modern ones that had not yet come into use.
  — Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• His pictures show a massing burning swastika and an othala rune – a pagan symbol that was used by some elements of the Third Reich.
  — Time, 22 Apr. 2018
• That particular symbol dates back even further than the Odal rune, and was used during the Roman Republic as a symbol of power and authority.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• That said, FedEx’s failures—to respond more quickly to the changing e-commerce landscape, to read the runes of geopolitics and to end its stubborn refusal to join its two businesses—reflect a company whose management is long in the tooth.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• The tablet was inscribed with runes recording a massacre of Scandinavian explorers deep in North America—more than a century before Columbus set sail.
  — Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• There is speculation that the rune could be for a person buried in the grave, according to Science Norway, especially since the excavation also revealed bones and charcoal.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 17 Jan. 2023
• No more fitting in a capital letter, a number, an ancient rune, a block of Chinese calligraphy and a family secret into a password?
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
• Archeologists in Norway have found what is believed to be the world's oldest rune, with inscriptions dating back approximately 2,000 years.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 19 Jan. 2023
• Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old iron knife with engravings that could be the oldest runes ever identified in Denmark.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• The sixty-four-character private key for your bitcoin looks like any other computer rune and is nearly impossible to memorize.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• There’s also a lot of talk about spirits and runes that’s needlessly convoluted, along with a magical island that’s full of ice and exposition, and everything that happens there is confusing and hard to follow.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• There is little evidence that the rune originally had any symbolic significance beyond its sound value, but the letter shares the name of a Norse deity popularly understood as the god of war, Tyr.
  — Richard Martyn-Hemphill, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• Gotham People love to read the runes of a private relationship on the most inconsequential of ephemera, and the internet has given a new lens through which all pop cultural phenomena can be ruthlessly examined.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2023
• Given their professional context, his intricate structural diagrams start to look like runes of a bygone profession.
  — Malcolm Harris, New Republic, 13 Sep. 2017
• The country’s individual investors are adept at reading the regulatory runes.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• More blatant extremist symbols and racist slogans have largely disappeared from stadiums in recent years, often replaced with coded messages using Viking runes and other symbols with significance on the Russian far right.
  — NBC News, 30 May 2018
• At her memorial service, someone described Joan Didion as a rune: mysterious, remote, and indecipherable.
  — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024