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
The culprit for the incantation was the image of the now emblematic Pale Man from “Pan’s Labyrinth,” flaunting eyes on his palms on the back cover of the DVD.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
Chef Anne Burrell had a way of turning instruction into incantation.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025
Nuns dangling rosary beads, tourists and student priests were among those who joined the gentle incantation of the rosary in the Vatican.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025
The Witchlings were pinned: the Cursed Toads and the Nightbeast in front of them, the raging water behind them growing wilder as Barbatos waved his hands in the air and mumbled an incantation.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Vocabulary lists containing incantation
Lord of the Flies
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"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving
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