How to Use witchcraft in a Sentence

witchcraft

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  • They are redeemed not from the sin of witchcraft, but rather from their own greed and pride.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The book caused witch-hunts and trials in Europe, where witchcraft was a crime.
    — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • In 1878, Salem was back in the news with what seems to be the last witchcraft trial in the nation, though a judge dismissed the charges.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • What is your take on her thoughts about or beliefs in witchcraft?
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Soon the subject of inquiry turns away from witchcraft.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Both of them practiced witchcraft, and each put hexes on the other’s claim.
    — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • In the new film, witchcraft is just a tool that can be used as its practitioners see fit.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • This new Back Bay hotspot, which opened in April, is named after and inspired by the Greek goddess of ghosts and witchcraft.
    — Joy Ashford, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Three out of four Russians accused of witchcraft were men.
    — Valerie Kivelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • Of those convicted of witchcraft, 19 were hanged and 4 others died in prison.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Physicians often agreed a death was the result of witchcraft.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • And then there was going to be a case involving witchcraft.
    — WIRED, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The audience members are the ones on trial for witchcraft in this event, which transports them back to 1692Salem.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2021
  • Thus Tituba became one of the first people accused of witchcraft in Salem.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Her witchcraft practices set off the fire alarm, to a very irritated Manuel.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Tituba, an enslaved woman who was one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The tides of feminism and witchcraft have always been tightly linked.
    — Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • During the sermon, Locke made no apologies for speaking about demons and witchcraft.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The motions of domestic life are also those of witchcraft.
    — Verity Spott Anne Boyer, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The 1996 film follows a group of teenage girls who learn the hard way that dappling in witchcraft comes with some frightening consequences.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2022
  • As cool as pop culture witches are, that isn't what the modern concept of witchcraft has evolved into.
    — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The ballpark will be converted into a school of witchcraft and wizardry.
    — cleveland, 30 Apr. 2022
  • What would have happened to Anna if Maya weren’t there to distract her from family stuff with a witchcraft phase?
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Certainly, Black does cite a jump in witchcraft cases in the early postwar years.
    — Richard J. Evans, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
  • But in Salem, two hundred, over two hundred people were accused of witchcraft.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Oct. 2023
  • That’s when the best friends set out on a pilgrimage to Salem for a masterclass in witchcraft — and brought the cameras along to chronicle their journey.
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 7 Oct. 2022
  • His powers are unleashed when a high schooler learning witchcraft summons him to get revenge on the mean girls at school.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2023
  • An release date for that hasn’t been released, though the clip did get its own short trailer, which appears to involve a bit of witchcraft in the Hollywood Hills.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Fired from her job at Salem’s witch museum, Becky gives actual witchcraft a try.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Over the next 15 years, 11 more women were executed by the Connecticut colony for witchcraft.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023

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