How to Use priestess in a Sentence
priestess
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Ged gives the girl-priestess her first glimpse of the world beyond the tombs.
—Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 6 Feb. 2018
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The priestess hid her gris-gris in this room to help cure Kate.
—NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
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The priestess responds that there isn't: Socrates is the wisest of them all.
—Time, 1 Aug. 2023
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If found guilty, the priestess was buried alive, with a lamp and a little food, and left to the judgment of Vesta.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2020
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Marie LaFleur is a voodoo priestess who lives in New Orleans.
—Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 1 Feb. 2020
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Calm down Madonna fans, this is a shrine to the Virgin Mary, not your pop priestess.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2022
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The book opens with a startling image: Acilde, the maid to a Santería priestess, hears the doorbell ring.
—Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
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Since a priestess was a sacred person, her blood could not be shed.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2020
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That goes to the princess Amneris, who begs softly for peace, and a chorus of priests and priestesses.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 23 June 2019
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First, there are her obvious ties to Melisandre, who is a priestess of R'hllor.
—Abby Gardner, Glamour, 29 Apr. 2019
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After the jump, three of Kalashnikov’s high priestesses of peace prepare to usher in 2010.
—Nathan Hodge, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2009
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But her self-presentation—the high priestess of the high desert in crepe dresses and dirty work boots—made her an icon.
—Rachel Syme, New Republic, 15 June 2017
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The woman, a priestess named Leïla, then appears in their village.
—Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2022
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My room, the William Winters Room, is haunted by the spirit of a voodoo priestess brought in to save a child named Kate from yellow fever.
—NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
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The priestess is believed to have been close to ancient Egyptian royals of the Fifth Dynasty.
—Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
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But, there are plenty of fashion gods — high priests and priestesses — who disagree with me.
—Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
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Chris Hemsworth returns in the title role, battling an evil priestess played by Cate Blanchett.
—Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 6 Sep. 2017
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The writer appeared in the movie as the priestess performing the pagan wedding.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
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The priestess shifted position, walked around the mirror and tried again.
—USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
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She is dressed in all white as part of her commitment to the process of becoming ordained as a priestess in Santería.
—Karl Vick, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
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Prepare to either sit on the floor on the ground level, or stand at the edges of the Guggenheim’s rounded atrium, then wait for your priestess to arrive.
—Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
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To access it, approach the oracle in the temple by the river and answer the priestess’s three questions.
—Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 14 May 2022
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Weapons were also found, which may indicate the woman was a high ranking priestess or a Moche ruler.
—Fox News, 6 July 2017
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Eden has teamed with Kathleen Bakula, the high priestess of Mobili-Tea — a mobile high tea service.
—Carol Ann Davidson, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
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The priestesses who tended the oracle at Delphi were known as Melissae.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
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Arms control’s high priests and priestesses, and key senators such as Joe Biden and John Kerry, were apoplectic.
—John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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Alfre Woodard plays Paris, a priestess and advisor to Baba Voss.
—James Hibberd, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2019
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In other words, the possibility that the mummy was that of the Egyptian priestess Mer-Neith-it-es could not be ruled out.
—Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
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Beauvais is returning to one of her first-ever roles, playing a rose petal priestess.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2019
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The art on the label is a vintage photo of a Burmese priestess kissing a snake, perhaps eluding to how difficult and site-specific Grenache is to make well.
—Kim Westerman, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
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