How to Use sigil in a Sentence

sigil

noun
  • Five realizes that the sigil is hidden in a pattern of seven stars on the floor of the lobby.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 22 June 2022
  • There is more to come, for the researchers of Tevanne have not gotten as far as the old alphabet of sigils.
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
  • In 'Game of Thrones,' the dire wolf is the sigil, or mascot, of House Stark.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The Order token moves up, and any player with a sigil on the card gains any cube rewards shown on the success side.
    — Keith Law, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2019
  • The correct sigil from his Westeros world uses a two-legged dragon.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The machine starts extracting energy from those standing on the sigil.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2022
  • Then, after Theo and Isildur leave, Estrid takes a moment to burn the Adar sigil on her back.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
  • Reggie informs everyone that the key to saving the world is finding the sigil, which is hidden somewhere in the hotel.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 22 June 2022
  • FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Sticks of light emerge from the ground, with a rune-like sigil above them.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
  • Note that the dragon sigil on his chest is gold instead of red, as Aegon’s dragon Sunfyre has golden scales.
    — Alexis Nedd, IndieWire, 17 June 2024
  • The sigil is said to encourage the articulation of thoughts and feelings and aid in making music.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The matte, phosphorescent sigils painted onto his robe appeared to palpitate in the low light.
    — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • Was Billy the one who placed the sigil that prevented the other witches from knowing his real identity — and if not, who did?
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
  • An American eagle as predator, the whole world its prey, was the sigil of an agency that could not even conceive of a public readership.
    — Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 11 May 2020
  • The sigil features seven stars, and Reginald instructs seven of the Hargreeves children to stand on the markers.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2022
  • Grace’s victory has prompted a new contest for the high seat of the council, which comes with a nifty sigil ring and the ability to, for all intents and purposes, rule the world.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The sigil is one of a few differences viewers will pick up on, including the noticeably different Iron Throne.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 July 2022
  • Meanwhile, on the posts that mark every passing mile of the trail, a traditional image of a turtle stands as a sigil for the Maah Daah Hey.
    — Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The experts suggest amping it up a notch by using herbs, oils, sigils, or crystals that represent the meaning behind your intention or spell in conjunction with lighting your white candle.
    — Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 14 Apr. 2023
  • And each bottle is covered in dragons — from the label and bottle cap adorned with House Targaryen's sigil, to the corks, which are adorned with either a dragon egg, a dragon head, or a dragon tail.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Teen’s real identity has been a mystery since Agatha All Along began, as he’s been protected by a sigil that keeps others from finding out his name or backstory.
    — Rebecca Iannucci, TVLine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • It is divided by the upside-down V of the Greek lambda, the sigil falsely believed to have been painted on Spartan shields at Thermopylae.
    — Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Various shield sigils introduced late in the game encourage this kind of conservative turtling strategy even more by adding powerful bonus effects to each successful parry.
    — ArsTechnica, 9 May 2025
  • Krakow shushed everybody from the stage and introduced the group, then directed everyone's attention to a jagged geometric sigil on a poster-size sheet of paper hanging on the wall behind Criss.
    — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
  • The locations shown in the graphics often reflect which sites are shown in a particular episode, and even house sigils may change depending on which family is occupying a certain landmark at a certain the time.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Apr. 2019
  • The Teen’s true identity remains a secret thanks to the sigil hex that prevents others from hearing any identifying information about him, including his real name.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
  • There's also a teaser, featuring audio from past seasons and scary stone renditions of the various house sigils clashing and then crumbling, followed by a close-up of a White Walker's eye.
    — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 9 Mar. 2017
  • But rather than confirm those suspicions, Schaeffer put the identity of Locke’s character, in the show’s parlance, under a sigil, a spell that masked his identity not only from the other characters, but from the audience as well.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
  • As Armenian symbolic anthropologist Levon Abrahamian explains, sigils on ancient figurines illustrate that people from the region revered the image of the tree long before the crystallization of a coherent Armenian national identity.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 12 July 2018

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