How to Use high priestess in a Sentence

high priestess

noun
  • By record’s end, Garcia emerges in full command of this mercurial spirit world—a high priestess with a synth and a killer sixth sense.
    — Suzy Exposito, SPIN, 6 June 2024
  • Pop’s high priestess of benzodiazepine noir dispenses potent doses on her ninth album.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 June 2023
  • Dallas native Erykah Badu was the high priestess of that sound, which wove together classic soul music and hip-hop aesthetics.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Owens has always had an aesthetic riffing on the garb of Ancient Egypt, with togas, drapes and high priestess styles gracing his runways.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 23 June 2022
  • While Ellen’s spasms and fits are viewed as shameful by her peers—even her husband—Franz views her as a sacred figure who would have been a high priestess in another age.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Or that the oldest songwriter known by name is Enheduanna, a high priestess of Ur in Sumeria?
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • This is the folding method for clothes popularized by the high priestess of tidy organization, Marie Kondo.
    — David Pierce, WIRED, 23 Nov. 2024
  • One, the high priestess of a Wiccan church and a surgical coordinator at an organ procurement agency, is pictured in her scrubs.
    — Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Their high priestess, cycling endlessly through athleisure-adjacent tank tops and tiny sunglasses, is, of course, Hailey Bieber.
    — Olivia Allen, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2026
  • With spirits and the divine on board, goop finally has the missing ingredients to cement lifestyle as the new religion with Paltrow as high priestess.
    — Jennifer Gunter, STAT, 17 Jan. 2020
  • On the back of the disk, an inscription identifies her as Enheduanna, a high priestess and the daughter of King Sargon.
    — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Hieroglyphs indicated its occupant was Mer-Neith-it-es, a high priestess from the temple of the goddess Sekhmet.
    — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Enheduanna, a high priestess from Sumer who is credited with being the first person to sign her work, seems to be a fitting obsession for a writer who knows the stakes of authorship.
    — Andrea Valdez, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Enheduanna’s name was likely taken on when the princess became the high priestess to Inanna, the powerful Sumerian goddess.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Miranda Priestly, the high priestess of not only the fashion industry, but of all media, the exact industry Andy came to New York to work in.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Light rain and clouds forced the high priestess, played by actress Katerina Lechou, to deploy Monday's backup flame instead of the reflector used to light the flame with the sun's rays.
    — Karolos Grohmann, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Inspired by Gaynor, the high priestess of the discotheque, Gloria’s case and crown sport black spinels, pink and yellow sapphires, and diamonds, making a striking contrast against a dial plate of hematite, onyx and pink opal.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Rebecca Ferguson is back as Paul’s mother, Jessica, who becomes a priestess and takes on the collective memories and wisdom of all the high priestesses who have gone before.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2024
  • By becoming high priestess, Enheduanna embodied the goddess’ earthly consort.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023
  • As the Nobel Prize–winning economist and high priestess of informality Elinor Ostrom established, the peer-to-peer mechanisms at the core of both models can be highly resilient.
    — Antara Haldar, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The legend of Simone de Beauvoir—of how an obedient Catholic schoolgirl cast off her rigid, patriarchal upbringing to become the high priestess of existential feminism—is often narrated as a love story.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Ever since its 1831 premiere, sopranos have lined up to have a go at Bellini’s Druid high priestess to test their vocal mettle, because to successfully meet all of Norma’s challenges is to claim absolute vocal mastery.
    — Eric Skelly, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2018

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