Example sentences for: talismanic

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

  • Tortured by headaches and nosebleeds, he lives a life of fractions and spinning tangents, and the metaphors are right there in the filmmaking, captured in the furious montage and in flurries of talismanic signs--the swirls of milk dissolving in a coffee cup, the smoke spiraling off a cigarette.

  • No author's name, not even Shakespeare's, has the talismanic effect of Chekhov's.

  • Western fashion has always included earlobe piercing for both sexes, a small talismanic reminder of what has been called the "folk order."

  • The contributors repeat this figure as though it had talismanic power.


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