How to Use shaman in a Sentence

shaman

noun
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  • Like, the idea that there is a priest or a shaman or ...
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 23 June 2018
  • Woodroffe was believed to have been a client of the 81-year-old shaman.
    — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The eldest member of the Akuntsu was the tribe’s shaman, a man named Konibu.
    — Monte Reel, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Where in New York does one find shoes fit for a shaman?
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • The co-hosts joked that Rodgers could be a hippie or shaman.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The shaman will call the dead body with, uh, some mantra and the dead body can walk by itself.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The singer is a shaman, going wild, telling a story, telling the truth.
    — Vulture, 24 May 2023
  • There was a small crowd and a shaman was standing at the center.
    — Paul Yoon, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • The bag contains about two dozen teeth, which the shaman says are from Andean bears.
    — National Geographic, 31 May 2019
  • And there, on Thursday, the old shaman was shot dead outside her home.
    — Samantha Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The random noises that at first charmed her, like the shaman’s drums, begin to grate.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • What leads one to turn over their life to charismatic dime-store shamans?
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The jaguar’s magic was believed to travel via the navel from the god to the shaman or king to the general welfare.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The letter from the Apache shaman made a strong impression on Gardner.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The name Tahquitz comes from a shaman who, according to myth, turned against the Cahuilla people and was exiled to the canyon.
    — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2023
  • So strict, in fact, that the film and its set had to receive a blessing from a shaman before filming there.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 3 May 2023
  • For hundreds of years, Siberian shamans used the mushroom to induce a trance-like state.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Not so long ago, that analogizing was the work of shamans, imams, and ministers.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Aram walked away from a tech fortune, Reddington shaved his head and his new lover is a shaman.
    — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • For example, starting a show with Himiko, the shaman queen of ancient Japan.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2018
  • They are handed out by taitas, or shamans, who have travelled in by boat along a river to reach the jungle.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • He was asked to buy a live turkey from a local market and meet the curandero, or shaman, at the entrance to one of the caves.
    — Joshua Hydeman, National Geographic, 7 June 2018
  • In fact, David used that same word that the shaman used when the exes had a spiritual reading in Bali.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 5 June 2019
  • The woman’s sister was married to the shaman’s son, according to the Jakarta Post.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2018
  • There, Berman met Carlos Gibaja, a local Quechua shaman who showed him the magic of the area firsthand.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2022
  • That meant Cooper had to be drugged in a bar, then taken to some strange place where Red was being guarded and cared for by a shaman.
    — Lauren Piester, Variety, 21 Oct. 2021
  • On the day research clones were planted in Tacy’s field, shortly after Mother’s Day, shamans came to tap drums and bless the plants.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2019
  • The pictographs act as mnemonics, to help the shaman remember the sequence of events and the meanings of rituals.
    — National Geographic, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Who is this shaman sage of sandwich supremacy, a Zen master of mayonnaise?
    — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
  • At least that's how Roots drummer, Oscar-winner, and noted hip hop shaman Questlove sees it.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 9 May 2024

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