Example sentences for: aura

How can you use “aura” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But when she's on, Byatt's writing "leaps and pirouettes, shimmies and shivers" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ) and has an "aura of extravagant ingenuity" (David Barber, the Boston Globe ). A few find the tales a bit too similar--there is a theme throughout of the conflict between the warm southern temperament and the cold northern one--but most deem the sameness unimportant when the writing is so superb.

  • Is it not possible that the aura of success is generated by real success?

  • Overall: Kicking, punching, and an aura of mystery.

  • It's pretty, but it's all at arm's length, with an aura of doom that palls our enjoyment of even the picture's well-staged fisticuffs and bronco busting.

  • Movies that revolve around moral choices often have an aura of sanctimoniousness built into them: The audience is presented with the issue in the starkest blacks and whites and waits for the blinkered protagonist to "do the right thing."


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