How to Use supernatural in a Sentence

supernatural

adjective
  • The city is walled off by a supernatural force.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
  • My hope is to show that supernatural isn't just the thing of myths and fables.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2021
  • My hope is to show that supernatural isn’t just the thing of myths and fables.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Sussie is a six-eyed supernatural magpie with three eyes on each side of their face.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
  • And yet, the effect of a full moon on sleep isn’t just supernatural.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 16 Aug. 2024
  • No one is safe from the supernatural forces outside of their tents.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022
  • Each man needs guidance — and gets it — from a supernatural source.
    — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Are there supernatural powers at work in this tale?
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The island turns out to be home to an undying supernatural evil.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • Columns of light pierced its jagged crevasses, bathing the walls in supernatural shades of jade and pewter.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2021
  • How does the supernatural retain its hold on the theater world?
    — New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • Only the supernatural will be able to help the village out of its limbo.
    — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • This supernatural horror film gets your heart rate up with some of the most unpredictable jolts.
    — Leigh Hewett, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Not to mention the legions of supernatural foes that Guts has to fight.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 22 May 2021
  • There’s an abundance of twists, big fight and action scenes, and a veneer of the supernatural.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 27 Jan. 2022
  • At times, the movie has the moody feel of a supernatural suspense thriller, not a comic-book-style showdown.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • For over two centuries, eerie sightings of the Dash have tied it to omens of death and supernatural lore.
    — Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Or is there some kind of ghost in the machine that is our body, driving us on in almost supernatural fashion?
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Kids are being peer-pressured to take a hit of supernatural powers that none of them can control.
    — WIRED, 29 July 2023
  • One of them gets too close and begins to make his life hell, and the kid has to utilize all his supernatural mojo to save his loved ones.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • And the body is transformed once a supernatural passenger is on board.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • This shampoo is supernatural and thus a great pick for cleansing and maintaining a full head of healthy and shiny hair.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Not in a supernatural sense, but rather being haunted by a presence, or a lack thereof.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2026
  • There is a supernatural thing that happened.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The kids run the film, and supernatural mayhem ensues.
    — Robert Lloyd, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Man judges by the natural, God is a righteous and holy judge and is supernatural.
    — The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 17 Oct. 2020
  • For Chekhov, all-too-human rage and passion are about as supernatural as the world ever gets.
    — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The film also used the midnight sun and the changing light of the seasons to give it an almost supernatural look.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The corpse of someone who died by violence was thought to bleed in the presence of his or her killer, a kind of supernatural proof of crime.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • An evil supernatural force begins to target people close to her.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 9 Feb. 2026

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