How to Use séance in a Sentence

séance

noun
  • Plus, the protests against the seance were rather off-putting.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • At one point, there were seances on the grounds, Barnes said.
    — Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Cap off the evening with a seance led by a professional medium.
    — courant.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • But then, El stops Henry's seance at just the right moment.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Otho takes the lead in holding seances to bring the dead back to life as an entertainment ploy.
    — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Before long, the two hosts were talking about having a seance for all of the folks in their phones who have passed on.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 25 May 2022
  • Next, the psychic at the seance asks if Luann has an uncle figure in her life.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The other dogs quietly endure as the trio perform a dog seance.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
  • He's planned a seance to talk with his dead wife, leading to a frightful night dealing with sins of the past and ghosts of war.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The other players have gathered to conduct a seance to try to ask the ghost who killed them, where, and with what weapon.
    — WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
  • While the seance unfolds, Shipley and Austin bond over their girl troubles.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2021
  • Last year, Shudder produced the film ‘Host,’ about a Zoom seance.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Join us in a sunshine seance by scrolling on to shop one (or all) of the special spring-occasion candles ahead.
    — Elizabeth Buxton, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Every song becomes a seance, every bump in the night turns into evidence of a specter.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Before starring in a biopic, be sure to shield yourself from criticism by first holding a seance.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 8 Sep. 2022
  • This time Poirot must get to the bottom of a murder during a Venetian seance.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
  • His new album Paleo Sol is like a seance with the elements.
    — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 11 Feb. 2026
  • There are at least two living rooms, one of which includes a jade fireplace perfect for holding parties and/or seances.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 13 Mar. 2025
  • And seeing that world being taken in by the world of seances, ghosts and mediums fascinated me.
    — Paul Freeman, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2017
  • There's a seance, mysterious dolls and a glimpse of a seemingly dead main character.
    — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
  • All souls answered in the seance, with many sighs and thoughts of final deathheads and vomiting in the Jungle night.
    — Allen Ginsberg, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The seance is set to take place at Madison’s house, which Marquardt also believes in haunted.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The early 20th century craze for seances and mediums today seems laughably naive.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2018
  • Shot in only one day and clocking in around eight minutes, the final scene feels as much like a seance or invocation as a piece of drama.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • The tinny, atmospheric beat escalates the wickedness, like a party that ends with a seance.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 7 Mar. 2025
  • It's known for its over-the-top celebration of Halloween and for hosting an annual seance.
    — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The trailer, which was not released online, opened with the cast discovering the old seance room of a mansion that hasn’t been touched in centuries.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Glaude wrote the script for The Reading — about a seance that turns into a bloodbath — with Mo’Nique in mind.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023
  • To aide in this endeavor, medium Steven Gibson has been employed to conduct a seance on the property.
    — Courant Community, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The gory film stars Sophia Wilde as teenager Mia, who, on the anniversary of her mother’s death, gathers for a seance with her friends.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2023

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