SUPERSTITION in a Sentence
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38 example sentences for SUPERSTITION, such as:
1. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror.
2. It's a common superstition that black cats are unlucky.
3. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy.
4. The aid agency continues the battle against ignorance and superstition.
5. I'd like to see her get around this with her rubbage 'bout superstition.'
2. It's a common superstition that black cats are unlucky.
3. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy.
4. The aid agency continues the battle against ignorance and superstition.
5. I'd like to see her get around this with her rubbage 'bout superstition.'
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SUPERSTITION
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superstition
n. an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 And she had had two jokes cracked at her already; one about an umbrella; another about superstition.
2 Whether this romantic martyr to superstition and the melancholy mummer he had conversed with under the full moon were one and the same person remained as yet a problem.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
3 My motive for withholding it from the coroner's inquiry is that a man of science shrinks from placing himself in the public position of seeming to indorse a popular superstition.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
Context Highlight In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
4 Stapleton may fall in with such a superstition, and Mortimer also, but if I have one quality upon earth it is common sense, and nothing will persuade me to believe in such a thing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
Context Highlight In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
5 We heard the hound on the moor, so I can swear that it is not all empty superstition.
6 This and a certain tinge of superstition were the only unusual traits in his character which his brother officers had observed.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
Context Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
7 He crossed a small "branch" two or three times, because of a prevailing juvenile superstition that to cross water baffled pursuit.
8 The truth was, that a superstition of his had failed, here, which he and all his comrades had always looked upon as infallible.
9 I'd like to see her get around this with her rubbage 'bout superstition.'
10 Oh, it was a touching superstition, monsieur, and although I did not myself believe it, I would not for the world have destroyed my father's faith.
11 Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: it is thought that the devil, from time immemorial, has selected the forest as a hiding-place for his treasures.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
12 The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy.
13 Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, and prejudice.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
14 Science and superstition were in accord, in horror.
15 Grandfather asked Jelinek whether in the old country there was some superstition to the effect that a suicide must be buried at the cross-roads.
Example Sentence:
1 According to superstition, if you walk under a ladder it brings you bad luck.
2 The aid agency continues the battle against ignorance and superstition.
3 To place something else at the center may arouse fears that superstition and non-scientific ideas will attack an undefended citadel of science.
4 Ignorance and superstition prevent them from benefiting from modern medicine.
5 It's a common superstition that black cats are unlucky.
6 Try as they would, the missionaries were unable to uproot the ingrained superstitions of the natives.