How to Use exorcism in a Sentence

exorcism

noun
  • Her friends take her to a healer for an exorcism, which doesn’t work.
    — Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • The nurse called the priest to do an exorcism on the house and bless the nurse and her roommate.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The exorcism clearly didn’t stick back then.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Here is a kind of exorcism, conjuring demons present and past.
    — Peter Van Agtmael, Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Need an exorcism at your church in order to take the shine off the hot, young priest, for instance?
    — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 14 June 2019
  • What an excellent day for an exorcism movie marathon.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
  • But this doesn’t need to feel like a demon exorcism one bit, Scorpio.
    — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 10 Sep. 2016
  • In the exorcism movies, Crowe plays the guy who fears being possessed.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Oh, and did his own exorcisms with holy water, candles and sandwich bread.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2018
  • Nothing mends a friendship quite like an exorcism.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026
  • One of the screenwriters said that exorcism movies are like bullfights.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
  • And the only exorcism that works will be a return to the playoffs and winning some rounds.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • There is no better exorcism than humour.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • When that film came out in 1973, requests for exorcisms surged.
    — Joseph P. Laycock, Fortune, 4 May 2023
  • Some of the priests who do believe in exorcisms can’t imagine a nun would be effective.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • The Catholic church is not ceding the practice of exorcism to these other faiths.
    — David Crary, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lynn quickly demands an exorcism for the home, but Kristen says no.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 July 2024
  • Not the demons or the infestations or the hauntings or the exorcisms.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Burch said it is not proven that Crow intended to perform an exorcism on the young woman.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 16 Aug. 2023
  • That’s also where the exorcism begins.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • These men act out their crimes in reenactments, leading to what’s almost an exorcism for both the killer and the survivors.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • In many exorcism movies, the possession is the main attraction.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
  • There’s an exorcism scheduled at the box office for spring 2027.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 17 Jan. 2026
  • The locals believe she's possessed by a demon and attempt an exorcism.
    — Emy Lacroix, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Still, demand for exorcism in the United States and around the world has never been higher.
    — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022

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