How to Use pentagram in a Sentence

pentagram

noun
  • The last one was a small pentagram and that was a few weeks ago, but who knows how many more there are still to find.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
  • On the wood planks making up the theater’s floor is what appears to be a pentagram.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • In addition, the five frogs are arranged like the points of a pentagram.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 9 Sep. 2019
  • What is the meaning behind the pentagram?
    — Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Kelly then draws a pentagram on the floor of her bedroom and places her Labubu in the center.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Gradually their route takes the shape of a pentagram.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • In the meantime, burn your flannel in the center of a pentagram and enjoy these tasty, grunge-free tunes. Perhaps the most musically satisfying specimen of ’80s rock-stars evolving musically for a new decade.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The teen assailants carved a pentagram into her chest before Pike smashed her skull with a chunk of asphalt.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 24 May 2024
  • Satanic symbols, most notably the pentagram, were often found at the crime scenes of his murders.
    — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 4 July 2024
  • One of the most puzzling elements of the murders is the recurring pentagram symbol left at each crime scene.
    — Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Some of my accessories have illustrations of cats, knives, spiders, skulls, moons, and pentagrams, to name a few.
    — Monique Brown, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In the first episode, a high school quarterback disappears at night, and a pentagram is discovered painted on a garage door.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In a cradle in the middle of the pentagram painted on the floor, Timothy giggles.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 July 2024
  • But Wise’s ink includes a pentagram and the words suicide and heaven – all prominently displayed on his head.
    — Shaun Brady, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
  • The memorial consists of a black steel cube with an empty soldier’s helmet on top and golden pentagram symbols along the sides.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 9 May 2017
  • At a recent dinner, joined by a small coterie of postdocs, Arkani-Hamed drew a pentagram on a napkin.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2015
  • The pentagram, like the amplituhedron, is defined by a finite set of lines crossing at a finite number of points.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2015
  • Ferguson wore all black and was covered in piercings and tattoos, including an ornate pentagram on his head.
    — New York Times, 26 May 2022
  • And its horror artwork comes with an array of suitably nasty beasties, plus more pentagrams than a Slayer concert.
    — Owen Duffy, Ars Technica, 22 June 2019
  • The problem for the teens is the Bible-thumping adults of the town don't particularly care for the band's pentagrams and black nail polish.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Downstairs, below the dinner table, June the catering manager slash witch stood in the middle of a pentagram drawn in blood.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 July 2021
  • But even the appearance of the pentagram set Twitter ablaze with suggestions of Satanic worship.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2017
  • Were symbols of evil (the pentagram instead of the swastika this time) once again inciting legions of the discontented to overthrow an existing order?
    — Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
  • And a cult has been leaving shambolic traces around town (candles, entrails, pentagrams), its members somehow not having gotten the memo that the hippie thing is finished, done for, kaput.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • The sneakers, priced at $1,018 and decorated with a bronze pentagram pendant and a drop of human blood, quickly drew outrage online.
    — oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2021
  • One thing Dandridge doesn’t quite know how to handle, however, is the spreading panic in the town after the high school quarterback goes missing and a pentagram is painted on his garage door.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The young daughter of a follower in Gene Simmons-tall heeled boots sat quietly off to the side, wearing a T-shirt with a pentagram logo and reading a phone.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The city on Tuesday night may ban all unattended displays, including religious symbols such as pentagrams and nativity scenes.
    — Aric Chokey, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 July 2017
  • During his questioning, Dio claimed to have a message for the authorities before showing off his pentagram and speaking in his fictional language.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Instead of revealing the psychology of a serial killer, the pentagram is actually designed to mislead the police.
    — Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 26 Mar. 2026

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