sorcery

Example Sentences

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Point guard Donovan Dent, the last of UCLA’s regular starters to enter the game against Sacramento State on Tuesday, redeemed himself with some offensive sorcery against Presbyterian.

From Los Angeles Times

Better still, the dramatic tension doesn't fall apart during its inevitable sorcery battles which, in lesser film and TV, burst into empty, dragging spectacles with adversaries lamely hurling balls of fake light at each other.

From Salon

When, as a student midwife, Hazard watched a mentor induce a pregnant patient into labor with synthetic oxytocin, she felt that she was witnessing “a special, secret kind of sorcery,” she recalls.

From New York Times

Why invoke sorcery to explain a straightforward scientific triumph?

From Seattle Times

Conversion from Islam to another religion, however, is illegal, as is witchcraft and sorcery, the U.S.

From Seattle Times