How to Use rune in a Sentence

rune

noun
  • These runes likely correspond with the names of the owners of the bands.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Even so, the presence of the Tyr rune on the team’s sweater design was enough to raise alarms.
    — Richard Martyn-Hemphill, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Breaking these apart gives you rune stones, which can be channeled for casting magic.
    — David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The suspect's shotgun and notes both featured Nordic runes.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The runes of the not-quite-midi, not-quite-maxi skirt could be read across the recent collections.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But the sweater features a symbol known as the Tyr rune, which neo-Nazis want to claim as their own.
    — Richard Martyn-Hemphill, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Other rune fragments were even less decipherable, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
  • With runes on her face, the color of her hair and all these rituals, Mavka is a new heroine.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 12 June 2023
  • The hot, scarred night of Mustafar is never-changing, the cave lit by the eternal glow of the ancient runes.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Schultz wears a necklace with the Viking rune Uruz, another reminder of his journey in the past year.
    — Dave Melton, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • Because the weapon is in the lab, Sayer’s team hasn’t yet examined all of its mysterious runes.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
  • There are also reusable runes scattered throughout the map that let the player break the usual movement rules in a number of ways.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Well, except for a corpse that washed up with a disturbing message delivered in a disturbing fashion, runes carved on his chest.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The blade flares into existence, its scarlet glow illuminating the cave, brighter than the lava, brighter than the runes.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Splashes of color, bubbles, tubes, machinery, and glowing rocks covered with runes flow across the room in response to what the telescope has found.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Reading the runes of the Apple special event invites is always interesting.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Reading the runes of the Apple special event invites is always interesting.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Reading the runes of the Apple special event invites is always interesting.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • One of the last scenes of season 2 finds these two mystics sitting by a campfire and singing songs as Gandalf’s signature rune appears in the stars above.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The symbol for Bluetooth comes from a combination of two ancient Nordic runes, or symbols, for the king’s initials.
    — Shreyas Sen, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Several of its runes are either ancient forms that had been discarded by the 14th century or more modern ones that had not yet come into use.
    — Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But even now, League’s world—stuff about wars over magical runes on the planet Runeterra—isn’t the draw that brings fans to fill stadiums in the thousands.
    — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
  • One relic makes your attacks inflict scarlet rot; another boosts rune acquisition for you and your allies; another adds a few points to your strength.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The memorandum claims that evidence at the crime scene supports Odinist practices, including symbols in the form of runes.
    — Virginia Black, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2024
  • It is expected, for instance, that players will have to ask their dungeon master whether their characters recognize a glowing rune or can quote the ancient scriptures.
    — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
  • All across Central Europe, a fascination with runes and folk magic aligns with both right-wing xenophobia and left-wing paganism.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • And outside of combat, Atreus contributes other unique skills that are vital to progress, like translating Norse runes that Kratos can’t read.
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • His pictures show a massing burning swastika and an othala rune – a pagan symbol that was used by some elements of the Third Reich.
    — Time, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Dissatisfied with that response, some activists alleged that the stage design where speakers addressed the crowd mirrored the Odal rune, a symbol used by the Nazi regime.
    — Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The inscription on the ring contains almost 250 runes, or letters in the alphabet used by the Vikings and other Germanic peoples.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2024

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