How to Use healer in a Sentence

healer

noun
  • Movement is a tool and a healer, but even that changed last year.
    — Shauna Harrison, SELF, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The small, fresh leaves are a potent healer.
    — Mélanie Nauche, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2025
  • To be some sort of fixer and healer to those who feel broken.
    — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
  • His mother was known as a faith healer, and his father ran a juke joint.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • By nature Biden is a healer and a bridge-builder, not a change agent.
    — Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • She is seen, by her subscribers, as both a truth-teller and a healer.
    — Amelia Tait, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Well, my girl has a healer—somebody who’s helped her throughout the way.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Virgo is the healer of the zodiac and cares deeply about those around them.
    — Emily Simone, Allure, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Music has been used since our ancestors as a healer, as a way to get through pain.
    — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 3 Dec. 2020
  • After the storm passes, time can be a great healer for your landscape.
    — miamiherald, 27 Aug. 2015
  • Sometimes time is the healer for everyone for the bright light to come back through.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Biden sought to cast himself as a healer and the president as a divider.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • As recently as a few decades ago, healers traveled to the site to make requests.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 27 June 2024
  • Honey is a great healer for the skin, which is why this moisturizer is so beloved by many.
    — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Luna Snow appears to be the best healer/Stragetist at present.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • For me, a healer is someone who’s trying to become better, to find self-worth.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • This could encourage Bap’s teammates to stay close to their damn healer.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • For healers and herbalists, the stakes were high; the wrong plant or preparation could result in death.
    — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
  • Now, Ozeas is an energy healer.
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But the mom who recommended this healer on Facebook told me to get ready for my life to change.
    — Jessica Wright Weinstock, Glamour, 12 Mar. 2018
  • But in looking for a piece of herself, to use one healer’s phrase, Yoder is kind enough to bring us all along.
    — Longreads, 14 July 2023
  • The session will be guided by sound healer Darren Main.
    — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Some are brawlers ready to take on Trump, while others pose as healers to call the country back to better angels.
    — Michael Scherer, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2018
  • Brujas and healers use this energy to reflect, give thanks, and release.
    — Raquel Reichard, Refinery29, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The director’s father is a very famous healer in that region.
    — Gavin J Blair, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The Black guy who can make race a little less scary to talk about, who says that humor can be a healer, not just a minefield.
    — al, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Clare Hedin, a musician and sound healer, ticked through a set of slides to help people set up their own chapters.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2017
  • Players should bring in a team of three, which have different Max moves that can act as a shield, healer or offense.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2025
  • To be healers, alchemists, buck the system, and see life just a little bit differently.
    — Giana Levy, Variety, 8 Aug. 2025

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