How to Use witchcraft in a Sentence

witchcraft

noun

• 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
• 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
• And then there was going to be a case involving witchcraft.
  — WIRED, 15 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Picking the Vikings to win at Chicago in prime time goes against whatever witchcraft the Bears have been using the past 16 years or so.
  — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
• Her own 11-year-old daughter accused her of witchcraft.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 20 Dec. 2019
• The claim of the foundational doctrine of Marxism to be a science was pure witchcraft.
  — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020
• Her witchcraft practices set off the fire alarm, to a very irritated Manuel.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
• Tituba, an enslaved woman who was one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 29 Apr. 2022
• In the story, Wanda enters the Witches’ Road a couple of times — accompanied by the spirit of Agatha — during her travels to figure out why witchcraft is broken.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• Each season's opening credits feature creepy imagery associated with the theme — e.g., body parts in jars for Murder House, various witchcraft for Coven — setting the mood for the horrors that await.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024