How to Use amulet in a Sentence

amulet

noun
  • Drea and Maryanne had played their idol and amulet to get it.
    — al, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Each depicts a man, cloaked in a robe, with an amulet around his neck.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Did you get picked because the amulet looked best with your outfit?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2026
  • For accessories, one amulet slot, one belt slot, and two ring slots.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Romans may have worn trilobite amulets.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Shop the amulet charm collection here.
    — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Most don white tenugui scarves on their heads and amulets to ward off sharks and evil deities lurking in the sea.
    — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2017
  • To Sterling, the image was an amulet, a prayer frozen in time.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
  • My friend keeps the amulet for protection and leaves the rest of the kit for burning.
    — Jennifer Pak, NPR, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Even his name held magic, being the Kikongo word for amulet or charm.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
  • She was covered with amulets and jewelry made of gold and precious stones.
    — National Geographic, 22 May 2019
  • The smallest is a simple amulet, while the largest is bigger than a bowling ball.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Elisha ties the ends of the strap and slides the amulet under the old woman’s nightgown.
    — Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The ultimate goal of my life and my art is to be this amulet of hope, this light in the end of this dark tunnel.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 20 June 2024
  • Rome says the amulet holders are going to burn their advantages tonight so that the heat’s off their back.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Toys, amulets, darts, arrow shafts, ulus, drawers and drawers and drawers full of old life.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • His lover, Enid Evans, tied a mauve ribbon to the strut of his airplane, as an amulet.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The gold foil amulet was just one of several important finds during the dig.
    — Fox News, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The sailorlike gown is, of course, adorned with a cursed amulet, which, if touched by a Faithful, will kill them.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Simply wearing an amulet now made a person a shaman—and shamans were arrested.
    — Bathsheba Demuth, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Lindsay shares intel on the three-way amulet and that Hai and Drea have the other parts.
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 11 May 2022
  • In Greek and many other ancient cultures, the amulet was worn to stave off mystic bad forces in the world.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2018
  • Some of the items were Olmec figures, grinding stones, clay and stone earmuffs, and a human head amulet.
    — Kara Nelson, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Under the chin was the amulet, also known as a phylactery, likely worn around the person's neck.
    — Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Yente is kept alive by a kind of spell or charm that her host, a younger relative, writes on a piece of paper and places in an amulet around her neck.
    — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Both the time of the amulet’s burial and its location are significant.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
  • For model Oliver Wight (they/she), too, a childhood in the water was their amulet of joy.
    — Allure, 12 July 2021
  • Despite this, the nature of the burial indicates that the amulet was important to him.
    — Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Like an amulet, or a bible, the immense and somehow lingering grief and rage flowing through it is with me everywhere.
    — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That wouldn’t be easy, as the amulet was located 80 feet deep into the ocean on Blackbeard’s last ship.
    — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024

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