potions

Example Sentences

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Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

This is a job for a seasoned administrator, but sure, might as well give it to the TV host hawking magic potions.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2024

In a widely condemned practice, some traditional healers use body parts to make potions, claiming they can cure people of illnesses or improve their fortunes.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024

It was a caustic, contemporary-dress interpretation that compressed the work’s sprawling settings to a single estate and eliminated the mythological magic, the dragons, potions and instant transformations.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Primi herself used Baggies in her practice of layman's santería, concocting powders and potions to make this ache or that rival woman go away.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez