Example sentences for: priestess

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

  • Depending on whom you consult, following her apprenticeship in suffering Woolf became the woman who wrote To The Lighthouse and The Waves , a stream-of-consciousness pioneer and a cool, ethereal priestess of high modernism.

  • Archaeologists, still unsure of what was involved, suggest that the gorgeously painted scenes of dancing satyrs, flagellation, and a woman kneeling before a sacred phallus indicate rites that the town preferred to keep at a decorous distance, in this splendid suburban villa, most likely the home of a priestess.

  • Thirty years later, I am a 46-year-old Jewish bisexual priestess of eco-feminist witchcraft."

  • Or maybe, if the stateside magic kingdom is too much to contemplate, the next Defence Against Dark Arts Master (there's a new one each book, just to mix things up) could be a voodoo priestess from New Orleans or a Wiccan from Northampton.

  • According to the Sunday Times , the cult's leader, a con man called Joseph di Mambro, had made her a "high priestess" in a ghoulish quasireligious ceremony with strong sexual undertones, and got her to pay nearly $10 million into a Swiss bank.


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