How to Use priestess in a Sentence

priestess

noun
  • The priestess hid her gris-gris in this room to help cure Kate.
    — NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Ged gives the girl-priestess her first glimpse of the world beyond the tombs.
    — Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Since a priestess was a sacred person, her blood could not be shed.
    — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2020
  • But, there are plenty of fashion gods — high priests and priestesses — who disagree with me.
    — Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
  • Nekhbet’s priestesses performed their rites dressed in vulture feathers.
    — Ian Rose, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The woman, a priestess named Leïla, then appears in their village.
    — Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Even if her stepmother is a voodoo priestess and her step-sister can summon dead people.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Marie LaFleur is a voodoo priestess who lives in New Orleans.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Beauvais is returning to one of her first-ever roles, playing a rose petal priestess.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2019
  • If found guilty, the priestess was buried alive, with a lamp and a little food, and left to the judgment of Vesta.
    — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2020
  • That goes to the princess Amneris, who begs softly for peace, and a chorus of priests and priestesses.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 23 June 2019
  • Calm down Madonna fans, this is a shrine to the Virgin Mary, not your pop priestess.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2022
  • First, there are her obvious ties to Melisandre, who is a priestess of R'hllor.
    — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 29 Apr. 2019
  • The priestess enjoys a bath while nonchalantly asking her boyfriend's wife to grab her a potion.
    — Paul Schrodt, GQ, 11 July 2017
  • Weapons were also found, which may indicate the woman was a high ranking priestess or a Moche ruler.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2017
  • The writer appeared in the movie as the priestess performing the pagan wedding.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Chris Hemsworth returns in the title role, battling an evil priestess played by Cate Blanchett.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • She is dressed in all white as part of her commitment to the process of becoming ordained as a priestess in Santería.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
  • To access it, approach the oracle in the temple by the river and answer the priestess’s three questions.
    — Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 14 May 2022
  • The priestesses who tended the oracle at Delphi were known as Melissae.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
  • After the jump, three of Kalashnikov’s high priestesses of peace prepare to usher in 2010.
    — Nathan Hodge, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2009
  • The priestess is believed to have been close to ancient Egyptian royals of the Fifth Dynasty.
    — Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Kabacoff is married to Sallie Ann Glassman, a voodoo priestess.
    — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • By the end of the day, attendees had gathered around the fire pit for a ritual led by Voodoo priestess Lilith Dorsey.
    — Shahrzad Rasekh, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Prepare to either sit on the floor on the ground level, or stand at the edges of the Guggenheim’s rounded atrium, then wait for your priestess to arrive.
    — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
  • Alfre Woodard plays Paris, a priestess and advisor to Baba Voss.
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • She is believed to be the reincarnation of the previous priestess, who was a reincarnation of the one before her, and so on into the mists of time.
    — Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Eden has teamed with Kathleen Bakula, the high priestess of Mobili-Tea — a mobile high tea service.
    — Carol Ann Davidson, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
  • She’s being honored for her portrayal of Annie, the hoodoo priestess who is such a grounding force for the 2025 film.
    — Kemi Alemoru, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2026

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