How to Use sorcery in a Sentence

sorcery

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  • It’s all just a bunch of longhairs, swords, and sorcery.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Midway through the film, the secrets of Dolezal's sorcery are made clear.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 4 May 2018
  • There was a time when Chris could pass off an eclipse as his own sorcery.
    — John Hodgman, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • If any sorcery remains for the Round of 32, then the Magic City could be the cauldron.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The speedy service makes one wonder what manner of sorcery is about in the kitchen.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2022
  • For actor Michael Gambon, there was a bit of sorcery at work, too.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • As a metaphor of the thirst for success, this domestic sorcery is pure gold.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • He was introduced to Viking culture through the sword-and-sorcery lyrics of the heavy-metal band Manowar.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Dated to more than 1,600 years ago, the item may have been used to predict the future and practice sorcery.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Sunday was about more than sorcery from Brad Stevens and Marcus Smart's lack of fear.
    — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 14 May 2018
  • But mostly for Circe there is solitude in this sphere of her own, and all the time in the world to develop her sorcery.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • No doubt, the most surprising aspect of the story is the accused’s claims of sorcery.
    — Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • By then, what had passed for the aesthetic sorcery of the movement had petered out.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • But by some sorcery, my fingerprints do not show on the outer shell of the laptop at all.
    — Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
  • This is a sword-and-sorcery show at heart, and the season 1 finale was the best kind of epic fantasy battle.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Last year, in Zimbabwe, a man stoned his 71-year-old uncle to death for sorcery.
    — Evan Fraser, Foreign Affairs, 16 Aug. 2015
  • Much like a sorcery, an instant is also played from your hand for a one-time effect.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Classic sword and sorcery stories have a special place in our hearts.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The Oscar winner then tried to showcase his sorcery skills.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
  • What kind of sorcery is going on in that halftime locker room?
    — Kevin Scarbinsky, AL.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Communism was to the 20th century what sorcery had been to the Middle Ages.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The Potter books, and the movies made from them, are at heart coming-of-age stories adorned with some fanciful sorcery.
    — A.a. Dowd, The Week, 20 Apr. 2022
  • But the adrenaline rush and the haunting sorcery and ceremony stuck, like the tattoos on the men’s backs.
    — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2018
  • The sword and sorcery movies of the 1980s may look cheesy by today’s standards, but they’re fondly remembered by many fans.
    — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 27 July 2019
  • There’s a wide array of decorations inside that help the coffee shop live up to the sorcery of its name.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Instant: Much like a sorcery, an instant is also played from your hand for a one-time effect.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 19 Feb. 2019
  • But their savvy use of sorcery has increased in October.
    — Brian Costa, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Still, man is weak and sorcery strong when Odile, Rothbart’s secret agent and Odette doppelganger, seduces the prince at a ball.
    — Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Yazdanicharati, the top-seed in the field, is a two-time world champion whose kryptonite appears to be Taylor’s sorcery.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Danny Bowen presents an imposing figure as Prospero, whose sorcery calls up the storm that sets the plot whirling.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 12 July 2017

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