How to Use shaman in a Sentence

shaman

noun

• The eldest member of the Akuntsu was the tribe’s shaman, a man named Konibu.
  — Monte Reel, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
• Where in New York does one find shoes fit for a shaman?
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• The co-hosts joked that Rodgers could be a hippie or shaman.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
• The shaman will call the dead body with, uh, some mantra and the dead body can walk by itself.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
• The singer is a shaman, going wild, telling a story, telling the truth.
  — Vulture, 24 May 2023
• There was a small crowd and a shaman was standing at the center.
  — Paul Yoon, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• The bag contains about two dozen teeth, which the shaman says are from Andean bears.
  — National Geographic, 31 May 2019
• The random noises that at first charmed her, like the shaman’s drums, begin to grate.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
• What leads one to turn over their life to charismatic dime-store shamans?
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
• The jaguar’s magic was believed to travel via the navel from the god to the shaman or king to the general welfare.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
• The letter from the Apache shaman made a strong impression on Gardner.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
• The name Tahquitz comes from a shaman who, according to myth, turned against the Cahuilla people and was exiled to the canyon.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2023
• So strict, in fact, that the film and its set had to receive a blessing from a shaman before filming there.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 3 May 2023
• For hundreds of years, Siberian shamans used the mushroom to induce a trance-like state.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• Not so long ago, that analogizing was the work of shamans, imams, and ministers.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Aram walked away from a tech fortune, Reddington shaved his head and his new lover is a shaman.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• They are handed out by taitas, or shamans, who have travelled in by boat along a river to reach the jungle.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2019
• In fact, David used that same word that the shaman used when the exes had a spiritual reading in Bali.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 5 June 2019
• The woman’s sister was married to the shaman’s son, according to the Jakarta Post.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2018
• There, Berman met Carlos Gibaja, a local Quechua shaman who showed him the magic of the area firsthand.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2022
• That meant Cooper had to be drugged in a bar, then taken to some strange place where Red was being guarded and cared for by a shaman.
  — Lauren Piester, Variety, 21 Oct. 2021
• On the day research clones were planted in Tacy’s field, shortly after Mother’s Day, shamans came to tap drums and bless the plants.
  — Mackensy Lunsford, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2019
• The pictographs act as mnemonics, to help the shaman remember the sequence of events and the meanings of rituals.
  — National Geographic, 31 Aug. 2020
• Manari Ushigua, shaman of the Sápara nation of the Amazon.
  — P.j. McCormick, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2022
• In the evenings, there are sunset ceremonies around the pool, in which a shaman blesses and waves incense around willing guests.
  — Hadley Freeman, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
• The game, set to launch April 23, follows a young shaman, Zau, who has made a deal with the god of death to bring his father back to life in exchange for three great spirits.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
• He’s not our parent, or our personal physician, or a shaman, or our life coach.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 22 Feb. 2021
• Early on in their stay, Whitney Rose hired a shaman, Kseniya, to help the women embark on a healing journey.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
• Clad in hat, shades and poncho like some ‘70s shaman, Wooten coaxed future-vintage sounds from an array of keyboards, atop a riser at the back of the stage.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 16 May 2022
• Two shaman prayed cross-legged on the forest floor Monday as the search continued, according to Reuters.
  — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024