How to Use witchcraft in a Sentence

witchcraft

noun

• He was tried for witchcraft, found guilty, and burnt at the stake.
  — Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
• It is bound up with witchcraft, the underworld, night-time and the far side of the Moon.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
• They are redeemed not from the sin of witchcraft, but rather from their own greed and pride.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
• Legacy: In 1996 witchcraft was niche and taboo, and the film reflects that.
  — Kim Wong-Shing, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2020
• At least half a dozen books on witchcraft have been released in the past six months alone.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
• Along the Fife Coastal Path, three plaques note the 380 people accused of witchcraft.
  — Joseph Prezioso, National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2020
• The book caused witch-hunts and trials in Europe, where witchcraft was a crime.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• In 1878, Salem was back in the news with what seems to be the last witchcraft trial in the nation, though a judge dismissed the charges.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
• The process sounds like wine grape growing combined with a bit of witchcraft.
  — Chris MacIas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• What is your take on her thoughts about or beliefs in witchcraft?
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
• In May 1693 Phips pardoned all those who were still in prison on witchcraft charges.
  — National Geographic, 18 May 2017
• For example, this isn't the first time a group of women has turned to witchcraft as a form of protest.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
• Soon the subject of inquiry turns away from witchcraft.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Both of them practiced witchcraft, and each put hexes on the other’s claim.
  — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• In the new film, witchcraft is just a tool that can be used as its practitioners see fit.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
• He was once convicted of witchcraft and was one of the most traveled people of his day.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Mar. 2018
• This new Back Bay hotspot, which opened in April, is named after and inspired by the Greek goddess of ghosts and witchcraft.
  — Joy Ashford, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
• Three out of four Russians accused of witchcraft were men.
  — Valerie Kivelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
• Of those convicted of witchcraft, 19 were hanged and 4 others died in prison.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Oct. 2022
• Physicians often agreed a death was the result of witchcraft.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• My mother taught me [witchcraft] was the most natural thing in the world but private.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• But long before there was a school of witchcraft and wizardry, there was the Magic Castle.
  — Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 9 Jan. 2018
• Cerberus was also said to have been the companion of the Greek goddess Hecate, who ruled the night, the moon, magic and witchcraft.
  — Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 27 Oct. 2017
• And then there was going to be a case involving witchcraft.
  — WIRED, 15 Sep. 2022
• If witchcraft gets added to the next Winter Olympics, Rippon will get the gold easily.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 17 Feb. 2018
• The Hogwarts Castle blanket features the famed school of witchcraft and wizardry and has owls at the top and bottom.
  — Lyndsey Matthews, Cosmopolitan, 27 Oct. 2017
• When fighting for freedom, the NRA doesn’t get involved in witchcraft.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 17 June 2018
• The audience members are the ones on trial for witchcraft in this event, which transports them back to 1692Salem.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2021
• Thus Tituba became one of the first people accused of witchcraft in Salem.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
• When his mother was taken to hell by the demon Mephisto for her witchcraft, the young Doom sought to better himself to bring her back.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024