How to Use hoodoo in a Sentence

hoodoo

noun
  • Descend a half-mile down to the beach and hoodoos come into view.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The artist Renée Stout has made work inspired by hoodoo for more than three decades.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 27 May 2017
  • Although the hoodoos tend to take the glory, the trees within the park refuse to be outshone.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
  • So there is no wonder why rose waters, rosehip oils, and rose oils are staples in the homes of hoodoos.
    — Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Bryce Canyon has the highest concentration of hoodoos in the world.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
  • With its sand dunes, lofty peaks and lava hoodoos, daytime at Craters of the Moon can be as fun as the night.
    — Sarah Sekula, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Colors and patterns have very specific meanings in hoodoo.
    — Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
  • One of the simplest rituals of adornment in hoodoo traditions is our use of color!
    — Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Visitors can view the hoodoo heaven from the park’s many hiking trails and several scenic overlooks.
    — Nick Kontis, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2021
  • For many years, the World Cup had proved to be Egypt’s stumbling block, but the hoodoo is finally over.
    — Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • The park’s famous red-orange hoodoos look even more surreal capped with snow, and the lack of crowds enhances the landscape tenfold.
    — Taryn Shorr-McKee, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Bryce Canyon’s Fairyland Loop presents a fairy-tale landscape of biscuity hoodoos.
    — Jennifer Malloy, Outside, 1 Aug. 2025
  • To that end, naturally occurring oils and waters are staples for beauty on both a hoodoo’s vanity and in their kitchens!
    — Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Bryce Canyon’s hoodoo collection is most enchanting at sunrise and sunset, but days here are filled with hiking and rock climbing.
    — Brandon Schultz, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • When Eduardo is abruptly killed, Lili calls on some ancient Caribbean hoodoo to bring him back.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • From its iconic hoodoo rock formations to its dazzling night sky, Bryce Canyon’s sights are simply breathtaking.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
  • The amphitheater calls to mind a hobbit-sized Bryce Canyon bristling with colorful hoodoos full of climbing and scrambling options.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • Napoli had lost three of its last four matches against Atalanta but Dries Mertens ended his goal drought in timely fashion to help his team break that hoodoo.
    — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • The eight-mile Fairyland Loop takes you along the plateau rim and into the canyon, granting you views of Bryce Amphitheater’s hoodoos.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
  • This might mean a winter visit, when snow makes those hoodoos extra enchanting and temperatures are far more tolerable than the extreme heat of summer.
    — Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The South Unit's badlands, deep-cut canyons, and sandy hoodoos allow modern explorers to see the allure of a wild North Dakota.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026
  • The park’s signature sandstone spires known as hoodoos are some 60 million years in the making, and there are more of these geological phenomena in Bryce than anywhere in the world.
    — Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Speaking of hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park and Kodachrome Basin State Park are both less than 50 miles away.
    — Melanie Haiken, Outside, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Go Back to Your Roots (Literally) One of the simplest markers of hoodoo is its use of the earth’s to conjure natural beauty and wellness.
    — Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In hindsight, the failure to win a single game after a 56-year wait between World Cups was just a taster of the hoodoo that haunted Egypt over the following 36 years.
    — Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • Cue pandemonium inside Wembley, as the crowd finally started to believe their tournament hoodoo against Germany was coming to end.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 29 June 2021
  • Blame it solely on the Big Ten tournament hoodoo that has plagued Indiana virtually since the competition’s inception.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2018
  • During the Cretaceous period, which ended 65 million years ago, this region looked strikingly different from the arid steppes and hoodoos that visitors see today.
    — George W. Stone, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Bryce Canyon National Park, about a two-hour drive northeast of Zion, is home to the world’s largest concentration of hoodoos, columns of rock that have been sculpted by centuries of erosion.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
  • His ascent from three uneven seasons after signing puts him at least on a trajectory to break a 10-year hoodoo for the organization and overcome a stigma that goes far beyond the Warehouse.
    — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 2 June 2018

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