How to Use exorcism in a Sentence

exorcism

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  • The 3-year-old child involved in the exorcism died on Sept. 24.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 13 May 2022
  • Her friends take her to a healer for an exorcism, which doesn’t work.
    — Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
  • John Black, who was a man of the cloth at the time, had to perform an emergency exorcism.
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The Catholic church is not ceding the practice of exorcism to these other faiths.
    — David Crary, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
  • When that film came out in 1973, requests for exorcisms surged.
    — Joseph P. Laycock, Fortune, 4 May 2023
  • But an exorcism turns into a tragedy and Nour has to face a wave of violence that could cost their lives.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Here is a kind of exorcism, conjuring demons present and past.
    — Peter Van Agtmael, Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert (Max von Sydow) to help with the difficult job.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 25 June 2022
  • Still, demand for exorcism in the United States and around the world has never been higher.
    — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • Balsewicz once had an exorcism performed at the house and once had a witch perform a ritual there to rid the place of demons, Wilmouth said.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2022
  • Lasso stages an exorcism to lift a curse on AFC Richmond.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 14 July 2021
  • Father Roberts must make a decision to get help for Lucy from the church, or perform his own exorcism on her against the church’s will.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
  • This was pretty good at that, until the end, which was messed up with too much violence and a hokey exorcism theme.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Apr. 2021
  • At Uptown restaurant Cavan, things got so bad that the owners called in a priest to perform an exorcism on the house.
    — Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • One of the screenwriters said that exorcism movies are like bullfights.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Burch said it is not proven that Crow intended to perform an exorcism on the young woman.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Yeah, that song is really an exorcism of self-loathing.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Together, Judy and the Warrens secured an exorcism from the Catholic Church.
    — Laura Zornosa, TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
  • As Chris explains to Victor, exorcism is about the people first and foremost.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The 2020 election has all the joy and drama of an exorcism. Exorcize your right to vote for or against your demons, both real and imagined.
    — J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Nothing is held back in what ultimately amounts to a kind of stage exorcism.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Lyonne's scenes, which serve as a cold open of sorts to the film, involve priests played by Andy Richter and James Woods attempting (and failing) to do an exorcism on her.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2022
  • In many ways, his procedures were a modernized form of the casting out of evil spirits, or exorcism of the devil.
    — Richard J. Evans, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
  • For Haas, his memoir was an act of exorcism that freed him to devote all his energies to music.
    — Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • In the aftermath of the movie’s opening exorcism, Ed has a medical issue and is rushed to the hospital.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 June 2021
  • Several exorcism scenes suggest there may be darker forces afoot that won’t be fought with might and prayer alone.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 15 June 2022
  • So that was the task: to go there and hopefully feel it and experience it and turn it into a happy exorcism.
    — Vulture, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The city of Boston’s sports teams had spent more than two decades performing a mass exorcism before Sunday night.
    — Joshua Robinson, wsj.com, 1 May 2023
  • The pic's opening voiceover, accompanied by grainy footage of an exorcism, clues us into the meaning of the film's title.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The other part focuses on the trial of the priest (Tom Wilkinson) who performed the exorcism and his lawyer (Laura Linney).
    — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2022

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