How to Use supernatural in a Sentence

supernatural

adjective
  • And yet, the effect of a full moon on sleep isn’t just supernatural.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 16 Aug. 2024
  • At times, the movie has the moody feel of a supernatural suspense thriller, not a comic-book-style showdown.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The corpse of someone who died by violence was thought to bleed in the presence of his or her killer, a kind of supernatural proof of crime.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • No one is safe from the supernatural forces outside of their tents.
    Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022
  • One of them gets too close and begins to make his life hell, and the kid has to utilize all his supernatural mojo to save his loved ones.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The kids aren’t all right in this creepy 2021 supernatural thriller from Norway.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Each man needs guidance — and gets it — from a supernatural source.
    Peter J. Travers, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The film is designed as a supernatural fable that blends with the classic body horror, and the revenge thriller.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • How does the supernatural retain its hold on the theater world?
    New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • Fight supernatural creatures on the high seas and hunt for Davy Jones’ treasure.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
  • For Chekhov, all-too-human rage and passion are about as supernatural as the world ever gets.
    Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Then peel the star off for supernatural skin, just like PinkPantheress, all day long.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 25 Aug. 2023
  • This supernatural horror film gets your heart rate up with some of the most unpredictable jolts.
    Leigh Hewett, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • In the 1930s, a boatman on the Paraná River kidnapped and devoured children in the name of a supernatural being, El Horario.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
  • And the body is transformed once a supernatural passenger is on board.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • Kids are being peer-pressured to take a hit of supernatural powers that none of them can control.
    WIRED, 29 July 2023
  • The police and town grapple with a murder that doesn’t make sense — and consider that supernatural forces may be at play.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
  • Of course since this is Stephen King, the secret of who the murderer is lies in supernatural elements.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The trio fights to protect themselves — and their minds — from the violent supernatural force.
    Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Billy Zane has joined the cast of supernatural indie thriller The Evilry.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The people at the time may also have had a supernatural relationship with the cats.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The show’s supernatural frame involving Chimney Man feels more and more like a cheat.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • Schnapp plays Will Byers on the series, one of the main characters in an ensemble of kids who fight supernatural creatures in the 1980s.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Not so much in the upcoming A24 supernatural horror Talk to Me.
    Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Since the dawn of time, the vast majority of humans have believed in the supernatural, or in things that can’t be fully explained.
    WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
  • There’s complex time travel, a sentient cube, and a whole host of other supernatural twists and turns.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 June 2022
  • There were also some wackier books which saw the twins mixed up in murders and even supernatural events.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 30 July 2024
  • This is a very light supernatural, with a sense of the world being wide and wondrous rather than a concrete magical system like Marske’s.
    Olivia Waite, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • There is nothing supernatural about Martin’s hunt for blood, though.
    James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Seemingly supernatural encounters, locked rooms and secret passageways tease the question of whether the house is truly haunted, or whether the long-ago death was actually a murder.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024

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