Words similar to superstition
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 .