Sample Sentences for
incantation
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    So you just decided to try out an unknown, handwritten incantation and see what would happen?  (source)
    incantation = words or sounds believed to have a magical effect
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    . . . though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation.  (source)
    incantation = words believed to have a magical effect when said aloud
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    The storm of sound beat at them, an incantation of hatred.  (source)
    incantation = words believed to have a magical effect
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    He passed his hand over Annabeth's face and spoke an incantation.  (source)
    incantation = words believed to have a magical effect when said aloud
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    Haints, Hot Steams, incantations, secret signs, had vanished with our years as mist with sunrise.  (source)
    incantations = phrases believed to have a magical effect
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    When you think about it, the cause-effect begins to resemble some mad logic-loop by the data artist Carolus or perhaps a print by Escher: the Shrike had come into existence because of the incantatory powers of my poem but the poem could not have existed without the threat/presence of the Shrike as muse.†  (source)
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    Formal beginning to Fremen religious incantation (derived from panoplia propheticus).†  (source)
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    Prepare your incantations and take me there at once.  (source)
    incantations = combinations of words believed to have a magical effect when they are said aloud
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    He cleared his throat, his eyes gleaming and his voice taking on a deep, incantatory quality, as though he had told the story many, many times.†  (source)
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    It was becoming a chant, an incantation.†  (source)
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    But they could not open it, not though they all pushed while Gandalf tried various incantations.  (source)
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    He had dreamed that Annie Wilkes was Scheherazade, her solid body clad in diaphanous robes, her big feet stuffed into pink sequined slippers with curly toes as she rode on her magic carpet and chanted the incantatory phrases which open the doors of the best stories.†  (source)
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    He repeated the incantation all the way to Comfort Hill.†  (source)
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