Example sentences for: superstitions

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

  • But many people interested in such things have never heard of Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, The Edinburgh Review, Century Magazine , and others that provided intellectuals with a worldwide communications network on such diverse subjects as Shakespeariana, Danteiana, the origin of visiting cards, the etymologies of words like punch, noyade, and ha-ha , amendments and emendations to the Dictionary of National Biography , showers of frogs, pub names, usage and grammar, ancient customs, superstitions, law, dialecticisms, rhyming slang, and the longevity of horses.

  • However, two New England superstitions were taken seriously.

  • "It is a terrible sign of intellectual and religious confusion," carped Elliott Abrams, author of Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America . "Each of these religions must remain an immutable hodgepodge of customs, superstitions, and prejudices," he did not add.

  • The sooner we are done with all these superstitions, including Judaism, the better off mankind will be.

  • Indian nicknames, in short, mingled old superstitions with tongue-in-cheek sophistication.


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