evil eye
Example Sentences
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Depictions of roses, a skull, a goat and a Santería evil eye dance around them, illuminated in sepia spotlights and looking like they could have come straight from a deck of tarot cards.
From Washington Times • Nov. 6, 2023
He had also conducted internet searches for voodoo and how to "remove the evil eye", police said.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023
The court’s opinion in that case struck down a law that was found to be “applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand.”
From Slate • Jun. 30, 2023
“They are like apotropaic amulets warding off the evil eye: an army of ever-watchful, unblinking, cyclopean eyes,” wrote critic Zoé Samudzi in a short monograph of William’s work published in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2023
She wore a scapular with the images worn away by sweat, and on her right wrist the fang of a carnivorous animal mounted on a backing of copper as an amulet against the evil eye.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
