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
Chef Anne Burrell had a way of turning instruction into incantation.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025
Latvian folk band Tautumeitas took a more ethereal approach with their close-harmony incantation Bur Man Laimi, which literally translates as "a chant for happiness".
From BBC • May 15, 2025
Grover trotted around with a full plate of tin cans and enchiladas, and his goblet was full of double espresso latte, which he kept muttering over like an incantation: “Pan! Pan!”
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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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