hocus-pocus
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Mentalist and theater artist Vinny DePonto, a bearded, soft-spoken man with gentle eyes, doesn’t want to bamboozle us with hocus pocus.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2022
It will be revealed that Bran is both Brandon the Wall Builder and the Night King by some time travel Three-Eyed Raven hocus pocus.
From The Guardian • May 1, 2019
It's just something, it’s hocus pocus whatever, but you know what I'm saying?
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2018
My sensitive, pale, unathletic, bookish uncle rebuffed and resented the male intruder, and when he was an adult I remember him ranting and raving against psychiatrists and their fraudulence, their unscientific hocus pocus.
From Slate • May 22, 2012
That important person will perform his mystic hocus pocus over the sick or dying, and charm away the spirits from a neighborhood.
From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by Ray, G. Whitfield
