How to Use mystic in a Sentence

mystic

1 of 2 adjective
  • She had a mystic vision while praying.
  • Her three background singers matched the mystic vibe as well in floor length black dresses.
    — Bianca Brutus, PEOPLE.com, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Genre shows have no superpower or mystic spell to avoid the same doom.
    — Andrew A. Smith Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • This witch costume keeps it simple with a mystic purple skirt and hat.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2022
  • She is considered a lady with a mystic smile that is a kind of sideway looks-up smile.
    — Sheila Sarrett, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • There is a lot of that mystery and intrigue and mystic and atmosphere.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Elena knows those laws do not quite apply here on her mystic grandmother’s land.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Britannia might not have dragons, but there’s magic in these mystic hills.
    — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Well, Linda still talks this way, and her words, for me, were like mystic chords of memory.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 July 2021
  • Taking refuge with their lover’s mystic cousin, Shams grapples with their complex sense of self.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Moiraine is a member of the all-female mystic order called the Aes Sedai.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • These mystic lights dance across the sky and have enchanted our ancestors for centuries.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Yeats’s spirals, once dismissed as the wild diagrams of a mystic, now settle over this place like soot.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The mystic chords that bind us together matter more than any policy.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Two years ago, mystic societies pushed to keep the city from altering the Arena.
    — al, 2 Nov. 2021
  • This new space seats 240 people, and the walls bear photos of the mystic society’s past queens.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The nation’s first mystic society would survive the next 50 years.
    — Kelly Kazek | [email protected], al, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Or a jungle lodge in Africa where the gorillas and green, mystic lushness bring to mind Tarzan’s lost world.
    — Priscilla Eakeley, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Some are turning to a 15th-century mystic poet for hope and guidance.
    — Kalpana Jain, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Eliot was a mystic doomsayer whose verse was torn, as if by shrapnel, with fragments of misanthropy and heartbreak.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The language has mystic overtones and rhythmic sections; it might be better felt than understood.
    — Sarah Hepola, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Like the mystic swirl of a Mara Hoffman print realized in physical form.
    — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 14 May 2017
  • He's seen here holding some kind of mystic artifact, the kind that litter Strange's Sanctum.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Then came the mega-bats in a skyscraper-high roost, and the ape-men slurped mystic Precambrian elixirs to get swoll for arena duels.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • But New Orleans’ mystic scene is vastly larger, and the city itself is a global tourism magnet.
    — al, 23 Feb. 2020
  • We are no longer used to the sort of self-effacement Faye practices and yet it is found in the mystic traditions of nearly all religions.
    — New York Times, 6 June 2018
  • End is a mystic gift to New York and a permanent recognition of his artistic importance.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 June 2021
  • Before the wedding can take place, however, a mystic fog full of monsters descends upon the palace, and Airk is kidnapped.
    — cleveland, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Some questions have arisen in recent years on whether the mystic societies should fork out their own money to purchase the Civic Center.
    — al, 12 Sep. 2022

mystic

2 of 2 noun
  • That was the thread that led me to the medieval mystics.
    — Janet Rich Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Most mystics describe being free from time.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Most mystics describe being free from time.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Photos of Pärt from his school days show the bearded mystic of now to have been then something of a jock.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The mystics were also attuned to the limits of language.
    — Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
  • What really makes a product mystic, though—as witches put it—differs from witch to witch.
    — Glamour, 31 Oct. 2018
  • The mystics and statistics do not see the Sox making the playoffs.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Ancient writings by a pseudonymous mystic!
    — Jon Raymond august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Over the next century, mystics and philosophers continued to expand the role of tarot.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Mustafa Ali is a bearded, secretive man who describes himself as a mystic.
    — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The electro-mystic misery of the waves alarm thirteen times in two hours could fairly be described as sonic battery.
    — Maggie Lange, Bon Appetit, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Wise died in 1948, but her legend as a Christian mystic has blossomed with time.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Our shores are an oddly fertile breeding ground for all manner of cultists, mystics and new religious movements.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2019
  • It is intimated that Rajneesh is a hypnotist as much as a mystic.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2018
  • June 21 is the summer solstice, aka the perfect occasion to get in touch with your inner mystic.
    — refinery29.com, 20 June 2018
  • Members of the nobility whispered plans to murder the mystic.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • And quite a few Twitter mystics took Teigen up on her witchcraft prompt and opted for more esoteric cures.
    — Evelyn Wang, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2017
  • This ancient practice has been a source of guidance and meaning for people from all walks of life, not just mystics and starry-eyed romantics.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Leslie Mann portrays the spirit of a woman summoned by a mystic who's played by Judi Dench.
    — David Lindquist, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Nothing captures the essence of the genre better than an outdoor outlet where the music’s natural mystic can frolic freely.
    — Dasun Imanuel, Essence, 15 Aug. 2019
  • In an instant, our shaky courtroom sketch of Pearl the flighty young mother, Pearl the drunk, gets burned up and eclipsed by Pearl the mystic.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Weakland delivered the final anointing to the famed Trappist monk, writer and mystic.
    — Annysa Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2022
  • At home, Tamariz trades his usual Panama hat for a brimless cap, giving him the aura of an ancient mystic.
    — Shuja Haider, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Learn about the glacier’s unique magnetic field, which serves as a pilgrimage site for mystics and others who practice Norse paganism.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Ojai has long been home to Theosophists, avant-gardists, potters and naturalists joining other outsiders and mystics with a whim for wonder.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • The novel works well as a story about sisters and sisterhood, toxic relationships, payback, herbs and a touch of the mystic.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
  • His own work reflects a lifelong love of reading in many genres, and his books brim with the testimonies of poets, artists, and mystics who hymn the delights of sentience.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In the 15th century, Sufi mystics are said to have consumed it to stay awake during long nights of prayer and devotions.
    — Ali Halit Diker, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Sitting down with Beth Bugdaycay in her gorgeous Foundrae store isn’t unlike an encounter with a mystic.
    — Emily Farra, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2018
  • But Goodman’s story is far stranger, and more significant, than that of a dippy mystic or a metaphysical scam artist.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

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