witch

Example Sentences

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Madigan won the Academy Award for supporting actress for her turn as the ginger wig-donning witch Aunt Gladys in Zach Cregger’s “Weapons.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

Her new collection pays tribute to women persecuted during historical witch hunts.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

“You suffered for a few years and now you are the least of this witch hunt,” she added.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026

The mouthy pool shark Minnesota Fats is given as much attention as the babushka Lyudmila Borisovna—an anti-Nazi broadcaster whom Joseph Goebbels called the witch of the Kremlin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

The witch ladled a bowl of steaming stew and held it before my face.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff