incantation
Example Sentences
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“Monument Eternal” is a talisman, an incantation that shows the author fearless and confident in her challenge to the distorting influence of race in America that James Weldon Johnson identified.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Under Egypt’s steady hand, each zip of a record sounded like an incantation.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
Latvian folk band Tautumeitas took a more ethereal approach with their close-harmony incantation Bur Man Laimi, which literally translates as "a chant for happiness".
From BBC • May 15, 2025
Part 1, “Acknowledgment,” features a plodding incantation, first set by Jimmy Garrison’s bass, then played by the saxophone, then intoned in Coltrane’s husky voice: “A love supreme. A love supreme.”
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024
A reasonable amount of cheating ensued; many people were merely whispering the incantation instead of saying it aloud.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing incantation
Lord of the Flies
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The Hobbit
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"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving
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