evil eye
Example Sentences
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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
“They are like apotropaic amulets warding off the evil eye: an army of ever-watchful, unblinking, cyclopean eyes,” wrote critic Zoé Samudzi in a short monograph of William’s work published in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2023
Amulets warding against the evil eye girded her arms and neck.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
