evil eye
Example Sentences
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The 21-year-old says a lot of her friends are the same and reference the "evil eye" as a reason for not posting their partners.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
Once killed out of fear of the evil eye, they’re now venerated.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Depictions of roses, a skull, a goat and a Santería evil eye dance around them, illuminated in sepia spotlights and looking like they could have come straight from a deck of tarot cards.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
Roberts disingenuously implies that colleges and universities, like Yick Wo’s persecutors, discriminate “with an evil eye and an unequal hand.”
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2023
After the way Tata Kuvudundu carried on at the meeting and gave off the evil eye, nobody could sleep.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
