Example sentences for: superstition

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

  • This is also the capital’s most fascinating religious site, a place of superstition and incense, mystery and spirited worship.

  • And as for sewing on Sunday, the old superstition stated that if a person sewed on Sunday, the devil would make the sinner rip every stitch with his/her nose.

  • Announcing the ban Friday, the official China Daily said the sect had engaged in illegal activities: advocating superstition and spreading fallacies, hoodwinking people, inciting and creating disturbances, and jeopardizing social stability.

  • The often important factor of taboo seems not to operate here too conspicuously, although the superstition of the evil eye is often a potent consideration.

  • Margaret Nicholson, in her 1957 book, A Dictionary of American-English Usage (based on Fowler), pointed out that Gotten still holds its ground in American English, and she adds that there is a popular superstition that got is less refined than gotten .


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