How to Use shaman in a Sentence

shaman

noun
  • There was a small crowd and a shaman was standing at the center.
    — Paul Yoon, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • What leads one to turn over their life to charismatic dime-store shamans?
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The singer is a shaman, going wild, telling a story, telling the truth.
    — Vulture, 24 May 2023
  • The shaman will call the dead body with, uh, some mantra and the dead body can walk by itself.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Woodroffe was believed to have been a client of the 81-year-old shaman.
    — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The shaman’s house was built on stilts in a little clearing in the jungle.
    — National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2016
  • And there, on Thursday, the old shaman was shot dead outside her home.
    — Samantha Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • This is fitting given the sign's archetype of the shaman, Montúfar says.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The bag contains about two dozen teeth, which the shaman says are from Andean bears.
    — National Geographic, 31 May 2019
  • The random noises that at first charmed her, like the shaman’s drums, begin to grate.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Not so long ago, local shamans still used some of the monoliths in their rituals.
    — Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2017
  • Not so long ago, that analogizing was the work of shamans, imams, and ministers.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The eldest member of the Akuntsu was the tribe’s shaman, a man named Konibu.
    — Monte Reel, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Aram walked away from a tech fortune, Reddington shaved his head and his new lover is a shaman.
    — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • So strict, in fact, that the film and its set had to receive a blessing from a shaman before filming there.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 3 May 2023
  • They are handed out by taitas, or shamans, who have travelled in by boat along a river to reach the jungle.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • That means a huge payday for the shaman and his team, but no amount of money is worth the unholy hell unleashed.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • A student, Kim Si-won was the daughter of a local shaman.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Well, Hyun-ju does beat up the shaman lady, Seon-nyeo, at one time by slapping her.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2025
  • For hundreds of years, Siberian shamans used the mushroom to induce a trance-like state.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The rhythm and drive give Co/ntry a sort of feral krautrock quality, one part robot, one part shaman.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 21 June 2017
  • Rafiki is a wise and playful mandrill who serves as a shaman and guide to the lion king, Simba.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The most helpful shaman is Pepe, who lives in a Shipibo village.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • The jaguar’s magic was believed to travel via the navel from the god to the shaman or king to the general welfare.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The letter from the Apache shaman made a strong impression on Gardner.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
  • At 29, Gabe Babcock of Milwaukie may seem young for a shaman.
    — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 19 May 2017
  • Increasingly sphinx-like over the years, Weir has fully grown into the role of a shaman in shorts.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
  • For example, starting a show with Himiko, the shaman queen of ancient Japan.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2018
  • My shaman Neal has an organic medicinal caviar that works wonders.
    — Carolina De Armas, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Stones from a pre-Colombian shaman's cache in Boquete, Panama.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2013

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