Sample Sentences for
occult
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    The small ghostly moon above the bell gables was so tiny it looked like the moon of a different planet, hazed and occult, spooky clouds lit with just the barest tinge of blue and brown.†  (source)
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    One day after Brad picked up Cassie from school he came home uneasy about the occult symbols that seemed to decorate everything her friends were making in art class.†  (source)
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    At five minutes to twelve stood a copy of Dr Faustus, at two lay on Occult Iconography, at six, under Mr Halloway's trailed fingers now, a history of circuses, carnivals, shadow shows, puppet menageries inhabited by mountebanks, minstrels, stiltwalking sorcerers and their fantoccini.†  (source)
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    His wisdom is not the wisdom of an old man, but rather a knowledge of how to do things, especially occult things.†  (source)
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    In another moment the higher of the villas that had clambered up the hill from Burdock had occulted the running figure.†  (source)
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    Unseen and occultly, the gods still gripped with their power and would not let her go.†  (source)
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    With its many occultish-looking folds, it also served as the repository for the paraphernalia of a very heavy cigarette smoker and an amateur handyman; two oversized pockets had been added at the hips, and they usually contained two or three packs of cigarettes, several match folders, a screwdriver, a claw-end hammer, a Boy Scout knife that had once belonged to one of her sons, and an enamel faucet handle or two, plus an assortment of screws, nails, hinges, and ball-bearing casters—all of which tended to make Mrs. Glass chink faintly as she moved about in her large apartment.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" to occult means having the characteristics of the occult. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
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    What public advertisement would divulge the occultation of the departed?†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Days passed and she asked no questions, though now she was deep into books of the occult, of witches and witchcraft, and of vampires.†  (source)
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    First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.†  (source)
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    —People do not know how dangerous lovesongs can be, the auric egg of Russell warned occultly.†  (source)
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    With this one, all the forces of nature that are occult and deep and strong must have worked together in some wonderous way.†  (source)
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    His title, schoolmaster, would very naturally seem derived from the name bestowed upon the harem itself, but some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was in his younger days, and what was the nature of those occult lessons he inculcated into some of his pupils.†  (source)
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