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How to use shaman in a sentence

31 example sentences · noun

Shaman means a traditional faith healer. Example: “I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.”

More sentences with shaman

  • I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.From the entry roll
  • Korean shamans are thought to be capable of inspired speech, in which they convey the words of the gods.From the entry inspired
  • The Khek shamans are believed to be in direct contact with the Ioka.2020, Vincent Hancock, Legends of the Dragonfly: Fighting the Communists During the Malaya Emergency, 1947-1960, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry Khek
  • In the Akha language, the word of this shaman is tumo.2020, Vincent Hancock, Legends of the Dragonfly: Fighting the Communists During the Malaya Emergency, 1947-1960, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry Khek
  • Before your eyes, the shaman has transformed himself into a werejaguar!2008, Buried Treasures: Young Explorers' Guide, QA International, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry werejaguar
  • During the Modoc War, a shaman acted to bring down the shielding fog against the army's advance.1998, David H[eath] French, Kathrine S[tory] French, “Wasco, Wishram, and Cascades”, in Deward E. Walker, Jr., editor, Plateau (Handbook…. From the entry tutelary
  • If they misbeat the drum, the shaman just become normal again.1996, David Levinson, Religion: a cross-cultural encyclopedia. From the entry misbeat
  • Feared, honored, welcomed, these shamans were familiar figures in tribal circles.1982, Ralph Blum, The Book of Runes, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 26. From the entry runemaster
  • There was none of the specialization of shamans found in adjacent areas.1935, Cora Du Bois, “Wintu Ethnography”, in University of California Publications in Anthropology, Archaeology & Ethnology, volume 36…. From the entry outfit doctor
  • Bono, a neighborhood in Ansan, 30 km southwest of Seoul, is one of many South Korean enclaves known for its shamans.2025 February 7, Andres Sanchez Braun, “Shamanic rituals, burgers, martial law: The bizarre crisis gripping South Korea”, in Hong Kong…. From the entry Ansan
  • Its streets are marked with swastika emblems—symbols of prosperity in Hinduism and Buddhism—indicating the presence of shamans available for consultation.2025 February 7, Andres Sanchez Braun, “Shamanic rituals, burgers, martial law: The bizarre crisis gripping South Korea”, in Hong Kong…. From the entry Ansan
  • “Whenever you have tribes, you have shamans.2021 August 15, Hayley Garrigus, 38:30 from the start, in You Can't Kill Meme, spoken by self (Hayley Garrigus). From the entry memeplex
  • So in a sense, you can see those same aggressive spokesmen for Pepe end up being that tribal shaman.2021 August 15, Hayley Garrigus, 38:30 from the start, in You Can't Kill Meme, spoken by self (Hayley Garrigus). From the entry memeplex
  • The Catholic priest would have been surprised that the old shaman had memorized the King James version of this song.1999, James D. Doss, The Shaman's Game, page 119. From the entry King James Version
  • The Haitian spirits are the shamans, magical healers of cyberspace.1998, Kathleen Biddick, The shock of medievalism. From the entry cybercapitalist
  • Written by a non-native scholar, this book contains nine Tlingit and Haida tales concerned with shamans and kushtakas.1994, Resources in Education, page 114. From the entry kushtaka
  • What we get in the best literature is an emphasis on the refined offshoots of shamans—the transcendent superbeings (hsien) of Taoism.1973, Edward H. Schafer, The Divine Woman: Dragon Ladies and Rain Maidens in T'ang Literature, North Point Press, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry superbeing
  • Encircling the marble altar was a congregation of leering shamen.1970, Jim Theis, “The Eye of Argon”, in OSFAN, volume 10, Chapter 3½, page 33. From the entry age
  • The social pattern demanded no rattlesnake shamans, no weather shamans, no bear shamans, no outfit doctors, no exclusive poisoners.1935, Cora Du Bois, “Wintu Ethnography”, in University of California Publications in Anthropology, Archaeology & Ethnology, volume 36…. From the entry outfit doctor
  • Some months ago several young men accused a shaman of faking and in the argument which followed he was killed.1928, Junius B[oyd] Wood, “Oyrots of Oolala”, in Incredible Siberia, New York, N.Y.: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, pages 64–65. From the entry samagon
  • Tarkyn hesitated, the cultural violation of taking outsiders uninvited among treewrights warring with his wish to make use of these shamans' skills.2022, Jennifer Ealey, The Dark Amulet Collection. From the entry treewright
  • The figure of shaman appears often, but I wonder why not shawoman, since so many of the impressive three-dimensional sculptures are made by women.2007, Soraya Erian, Mystic Loon, Ottawa, Ont.: Borealis Press, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry shawoman
  • The spiritual skill that above all identifies the shaman is the ability to go into trance and journey through the Otherworld at will.2005, Diana Paxson, Taking Up The Runes, Weiser Books, page 207. From the entry otherworld
  • From the Otherworld she hopes, as a shaman, to retrieve the soul of her dead or dying intended husband, who sits on Death's doorstep.2002, Dissertation Abstracts International, page 3778. From the entry sit on death's doorstep
  • Among these varied groups of farmers and menials, there are a chosen few set aside as ambassadors to spiritdom, or shamans, known as bhagats.1971, Charlotte Viall Wiser, William Henricks Wiser, Behind Mud Walls. From the entry spiritdom
  • Stewart, for instance, includes shamanism, curing, special powers of shamans, miscellaneous shamanistic information, guardian spirits, destiny of the soul, ghosts or soul, and jimsonweed.1960, James F. Downs, “Washo Religion”, in Anthropological Records, volume 16, number 9, University of California Press, pages 365-386. From the entry jimsonweed
  • Greta Thunberg is denounced as the “great priestess” (D2; F10; M2), a new “goddess” (L4), a “climatic guru” or an “ecolo-catastrophist shaman” (F7) prophesising as an “oracle” (L4).2020 spring, Lise Benoist, “Green is the new brown – Ecology in the metapolitics of the French far right today”, master’s thesis. From the entry Thunbergian
  • In the Cuna treatment many interpretations — a songful of them — appear to "come from" the shaman and to be imposed on the patient by this clinician.2015, Barnaby B. Barratt, Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse. From the entry songful
  • Shamans are trained to keep the memory of their spirit animal intact so that they can discover the many ways in which they can use its medicine.2009, Lucy Harmer, Discovering Your Spirit Animal: The Wisdom of the Shamans, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry spirit animal
  • Xenochrony is the technical term for this, and you can hear it when several shamans participate in one ritual, each with a personal tempo of drumming, each addressing personal spirits.2016, Tim Hodgkinson, Music and the Myth of Wholeness: Toward a New Aesthetic Paradigm, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry xenochrony
  • But the ultimate fix came from the grand vizier of New Orleans voodoo-funk, Dr John, whose mesmerising performance was as close as you'll come to witnessing a shaman summoning spirits.2012 July 24, Alfred Hickling, “SummerTyne Americana – review”, in The Guardian. From the entry grand vizier

Meaning of shaman

  1. noun A traditional faith healer.
  2. noun A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds; sometimes also a healer.

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Questions about shaman in a sentence

How do you use shaman in a sentence?
Shaman is used as a noun. For example: “I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.”
What is a short sentence with shaman?
““Whenever you have tribes, you have shamans.”
What does shaman mean?
Shaman means a traditional faith healer.

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