incantation
Example Sentences
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“Monument Eternal” is a talisman, an incantation that shows the author fearless and confident in her challenge to the distorting influence of race in America that James Weldon Johnson identified.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Under Egypt’s steady hand, each zip of a record sounded like an incantation.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
Nuns dangling rosary beads, tourists and student priests were among those who joined the gentle incantation of the rosary in the Vatican.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025
Where there exists a liminal plane, where the difference between incantation and recitation is hazy.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2023
"Weren't you given a magical incantation or something?"
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Vocabulary lists containing incantation
Lord of the Flies
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The Hobbit
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"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving
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