necromancy

Example Sentences

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On that plot description alone, “Perpetrator” may sound conventional — like “Veronica Mars” but with a touch of necromancy.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Unless Musk is beta testing some type of necromancy technology and got it to work – neither scenario is likely – that did not happen.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2023

There’s too much money at stake for the project’s backers not to deploy legal necromancy to save it.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022

Seeing dead people may seem like a curse, but to the teenage protagonist of the gothic, good-humored “Darby and the Dead,” necromancy is a Friday-night side hustle.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Mrs. Cobb strode on in front of him, passing a stairway that rose up too steeply, and then a library hoarding shelves of dark volumes—the arts of necromancy, Turner figured.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt