How to Use witchery in a Sentence
witchery
noun
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There are all these girls that are into witchery and tarot and crystals.
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Vanityfair.com,
VanityFair.com,
10 Apr. 2017
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Circe is her name, and witchery is the offense that has gotten her exiled to a remote and hilly place called Aiaia.
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Laura Collins-Hughes,
BostonGlobe.com,
20 Apr. 2018
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Are the hand-cut fries made with especially flavorful oil or some form of kitchen witchery?
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Robin Catalano,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 July 2021
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Nevena is transformed into a witch by Maria, who casts her young quarry aside after the girl proves inept at witchery.
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Washington Post,
30 Mar. 2022
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Like the original, the story line centers on a group of young women who don’t fit in, finding solace in one another (and witchery).
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Washington Post,
5 Nov. 2020
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Just after the Solar Eclipse, the Sun enters the woodsy witchery of Virgo, the cosmos’ original self-seductress.
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Bess Matassa,
Teen Vogue,
19 Aug. 2017
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Her family took her to a bhopa, or shaman, who quickly detected witchery.
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The Economist,
19 Oct. 2017
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As feminism becomes the realm of the corporate-speak, many of those in search of outside power are arriving at witches and witchery.
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Sofia Quaglia,
Quartz,
31 Oct. 2019
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In addition to witchery — the three women use their powers to kill a romantic rival — the book is full of local references.
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Julie Tremaine,
BostonGlobe.com,
12 Oct. 2022
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In that whirlwind, some 400 people were implicated in the ungodly practice of witchery.
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BostonGlobe.com,
28 Oct. 2021
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Other groups feel Trump requires magical protection, and they’ve been spurred on by the rising online presence of anti-Trump witchery.
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Emma Grey Ellis,
Wired,
29 Oct. 2020
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She is accused of murder, witchery, or both, and his terrified deputies train shotguns at the teen despite her evident helplessness.
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Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
29 Aug. 2021
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This is a film about witchery of a sort, though Ezwan has no interest in the kind of over-the-top content usually associated with Southeast Asian films about malevolent spirits.
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Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2021
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If that’s the level of mystical mysterioso we’re headed towards, then everything else is on the table, too, in terms of time travel, witchery, and whatever else.
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Kelly McClure,
Vulture,
26 Dec. 2021
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The craze for witchery displays an encouragingly wide understanding that for social change to happen someone has to feel threatened.
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Kelsea Stahler,
Teen Vogue,
14 Nov. 2018
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Trained in combat by his father’s henchmen and in mental witchery by his mother, Lady Jessica, Paul masters his harsh surroundings and survives attempts on his life.
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The New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2021
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Rebecca is arrested because neighbors assume mothers pass on witchery to their daughters.
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Los Angeles Times,
23 Aug. 2021
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This material witchery is possible thanks to a series of capacitive sensors that are embedded into the concrete.
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Liz Stinson,
Curbed,
2 July 2018
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Each iteration slots into the complex order of things known as Stevie Nicks; each era separable but contiguous, all routed through her mild witchery and intense American mysticism.
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Jill Spivey Caddell,
Longreads,
26 May 2022
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Besides witchery, paganism draws from traditions largely outside the Abrahamic faiths.
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Jose R. Gonzalez,
The Arizona Republic,
31 Oct. 2022
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Baby becomes really fantastical, with witchery and cult societies.
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Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
22 June 2021
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Argento’s Suspiria used its aesthetic to celebrate a witchery that was inherently otherworldly and stylized, producing a rapturous symphony of violence for its own beautiful sake.
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Aja Romano,
Vox,
9 Nov. 2018
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