How to Use witchcraft in a Sentence

witchcraft

noun
  • He was tried for witchcraft, found guilty, and burnt at the stake.
    — Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
  • What is your take on her thoughts about or beliefs in witchcraft?
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • At least half a dozen books on witchcraft have been released in the past six months alone.
    — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • They are redeemed not from the sin of witchcraft, but rather from their own greed and pride.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The process sounds like wine grape growing combined with a bit of witchcraft.
    — Chris MacIas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The tree has been used for suicide, homicide, and witchcraft.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Apr. 2025
  • To be sure, the usage of witchcraft by the elite class hails from a rich, long legacy.
    — Taylor Crumpton, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
  • There are occult- and witchcraft-themed shops and museums, tall ships and tours.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In the new film, witchcraft is just a tool that can be used as its practitioners see fit.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Both of them practiced witchcraft, and each put hexes on the other’s claim.
    — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The book caused witch-hunts and trials in Europe, where witchcraft was a crime.
    — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • Physicians often agreed a death was the result of witchcraft.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • For example, this isn't the first time a group of women has turned to witchcraft as a form of protest.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
  • My mother taught me [witchcraft] was the most natural thing in the world but private.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • But on the whole, the only explanation for this thing is witchcraft.
    — New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024
  • But as in witchcraft, the process can be arduous and uncertain.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Tituba, an enslaved woman who was one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The line sums up the absurd, paradoxical world of witchcraft.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 29 May 2017
  • In fact, the clip has nothing to do with witchcraft but rather serves as a showcase of the adorable bond between two siblings.
    — Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
  • One common Black folk analog to the craft of music-making is that of witchcraft.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
  • This may be due to long-standing superstitions linking them with bad luck or witchcraft.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Her witchcraft practices set off the fire alarm, to a very irritated Manuel.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Of those convicted of witchcraft, 19 were hanged and 4 others died in prison.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The sisters lean into their legacy of witchcraft to battle evil in the form of a devilish ex-boyfriend.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 7 May 2025
  • In May 1693 Phips pardoned all those who were still in prison on witchcraft charges.
    — National Geographic, 18 May 2017
  • Thus Tituba became one of the first people accused of witchcraft in Salem.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But long before there was a school of witchcraft and wizardry, there was the Magic Castle.
    — Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 9 Jan. 2018
  • When fighting for freedom, the NRA doesn’t get involved in witchcraft.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 17 June 2018
  • The claim of the foundational doctrine of Marxism to be a science was pure witchcraft.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Amy had been practicing—or attempting to practice—witchcraft.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025

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