How to Use shaman in a Sentence

shaman

noun

• Like, the idea that there is a priest or a shaman or ...
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 23 June 2018
• Min claimed that the shaman is simply a friend of hers.
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 1 June 2024
• Woodroffe was believed to have been a client of the 81-year-old shaman.
  — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 24 Apr. 2018
• 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 shaman’s house was built on stilts in a little clearing in the jungle.
  — National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2016
• The shaman was a tribe’s liaison with the spirit world.
  — Will Hunt, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2012
• The bag contains about two dozen teeth, which the shaman says are from Andean bears.
  — National Geographic, 31 May 2019
• And there, on Thursday, the old shaman was shot dead outside her home.
  — Samantha Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• 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
• At 29, Gabe Babcock of Milwaukie may seem young for a shaman.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 19 May 2017
• With her charismatic presence, Ms. Gong held the stage like a singing shaman, which was the idea.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 16 July 2017
• 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
• For example, starting a show with Himiko, the shaman queen of ancient Japan.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2018
• 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
• He was asked to buy a live turkey from a local market and meet the curandero, or shaman, at the entrance to one of the caves.
  — Joshua Hydeman, National Geographic, 7 June 2018
• Not so long ago, local shamans still used some of the monoliths in their rituals.
  — Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2017
• It is administered by an experienced shaman to provide a safe Ayahuasca retreat.
  — Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
• And like many traditional shamans, Choi Soon-sil came from nowhere, rising to a powerful position within the country with virtually no qualifications.
  — Katharine H.s. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2016

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024