Example sentences for: aura

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

  • Quite aside from its religious aura, the new theory contradicted their belief in the infinity and eternity of matter--one of the axioms of Lenin's dialectical materialism--and was accordingly dismissed as "idealistic."

  • 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.

  • The "protective aura" that once insulated the family has vanished.

  • A certain aura of creeping decay does surround the Bronfmans, and it is tempting to view them as a study in dynastic decline.

  • Prudie guesses it's the Hepburn aura you're going for, since, unlike you, there was no Marilyn Monroe body underneath all those tailored clothes.


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