Example sentences for: potions

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

  • Contemporary witches can prepare love potions, lift spells, cure and cause illnesses, and in general cause great harm.

  • Walker and Annie Turnbo Malone, two of the best-known entrepreneurs in African-American history, were both daughters of slaves, orphaned as children, who began as purveyors of black women's hair potions.

  • The two series share lots of obvious details: broom-riding lessons; animal familiars with minds of their own; scary teachers; potions gone wrong; school uniforms that look like Halloween costumes to us Muggles, as Rowling calls nonmagical folks.

  • She also understands the importance of evil, both metaphysical (Voldemort), and human: Petunia and Vernon Dursley, the Muggle aunt and uncle who raise Harry in his orphanhood, along with their doted-on, sublimely piggish son Dudley, are grotesques worthy of Roald Dahl; Draco Malfoy, Harry's nemesis at Hogwarts, and Severus Snape (she's terrific with names), the diabolical potions teacher, are brilliant foils for Harry's flawed, instinctual goodness.

  • The ritualgoes on with its potions,its implied promises; the priest goes onwith his combs, his animals,the exhausted wheat held up--you try in vain, and after your researchamong the transcripts of the institutionwhat gives you immortal life turns out to be the breath of another person ...


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