Example sentences for: superstitious

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

  • Many Zairians consider Mobutu to be the stern-but-loving "national father ." Other more superstitious Zairians endow him with a supernatural aura, something he has cultivated through his identification with the leopard, which signifies omnipotence in Bantu iconography.

  • But the fact that so many past market mishaps have happened during October (some famous, like the 1929 and 1987 crashes, others familiar only to insiders) makes traders jittery because they're afraid that everybody else is superstitious.

  • Available only in Size XXL, showing the Birch Society's commitment to big, fat, superstitious guys.

  • The strong spiritual faith in the power of particular saints was frowned upon by the American church and considered to be an “exaggerated superstitious” belief (Dolan and Hinojosa, 57).

  • According to anthropologists, the practice originated as a superstitious form of self-protection and disguise.


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