Sample Sentences foroccult (auto-selected)
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The keening language, so precise yet so suggestive; blood tests for "occult" presences.† (source)
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She seemed an occult figure, more spirit than human.† (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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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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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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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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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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I got pencil and paper and wrote down all the occult connections that seemed to lead to thirteen.† (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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As far as I know he didn't learn any occult secrets there.† (source)
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The history of shamans and the occult garnered our intense intellectual scrutiny.† (source)
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