How to Use by magic in a Sentence

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• Say that Ukraine was able, as if by magic, to produce 20% of the world’s rare earths.
  — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
• As if by magic, Hollywood lands near my home, on the edge of the sea, in the purest and most unspoiled land in the world.
  — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
• The food seemed to appear as though by magic from a tiny kitchen hidden in the mangroves.
  — Pilar Guzmán, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2023
• The vomit vanished as if by magic, and the offending child was whisked to the beach.
  — Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
• But an exhibit doesn’t just end up on the walls by magic.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 5 Aug. 2021
• Plus, as if by magic, her boyfriend Piqué's birthday falls on the exact same day.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Sep. 2022
• Once Shirlee was in the bedroom, every stitch of her clothing would come off as if by magic.
  — Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Then a dress takes shape in your imagination as if by magic.
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2021
• And, as if by magic in the song, Rucker and his bandmates’ voices appear, rising up like a swelling wave.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 20 May 2025
• Then that blood will begin to thicken into a clot that stops the bleeding, almost as if by magic.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2021
• Pablo Neruda and Gabriel García Márquez were two writers touched by magic.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 May 2022
• But as Hamilton reminds us, peace and justice will not align themselves by magic.
  — Rebecca Hamilton, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2023
• Come early next year, if all goes according to plan, the rolls of cloth and sewing machines will be replaced by magic mushrooms.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 10 Mar. 2022
• That feeling of loss, of being too old to be graced by magic — that’s no longer a hypothetical.
  — Emily Flake, Longreads, 20 Apr. 2020
• Taking out the qualifiers improves the sentences, as if by magic.
  — Ben Yagoda, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• There is enchanting power to what Williams has accomplished, but it was not done by magic.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 20 Nov. 2022
• On a mild springlike evening the string of amber orbs appeared as if by magic, a celestial sleight of hand that would in the coming weeks make headlines across the nation.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 17 Feb. 2024
• The day began under gray, humid skies, but, as if by magic, became cloudless by 11 a.m.
  — Lucia Tonelli, Town & Country, 24 Sep. 2021
• How could Anne, the poor daughter of a clerk, have been installed at Versailles, and even given a title, unless by magic—his magic?
  — Clare Bucknell, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• The mesmerizing timelapse shows that each one soaks up the perfect amount of water almost as if by magic.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Nov. 2020
• For most Americans, the third stimulus payment, like the first two, arrived as if by magic, landing unprompted in the bank or in the mail.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2021
• Blue skies and the city skyline illuminated by magic hour light can be seen behind him.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
• The stage is dominated by what looks like an avant-garde Nordic tiny home placed on a rotating turntable, with walls that switch, as if by magic, from transparent to opaque and back.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• Nestled in the gorgeous Ouachita Mountains, the park is comprised of 47 natural springs, where steam rises from the earth as if by magic.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
• But the genie thing, I've just always been intrigued by magic, and there's a limit to how many magical things Father Christmas can do.
  — EW.com, 1 Nov. 2023
• How but by magic get that probe to fly Close in the comet's tail and track its flare Of tailback particles, with some that lay Close-latticed and returned to human view, Each with its cache of cosmic tales to tell.
  — Christopher Norris, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
• How but by magic get that probe to fly Close in the comet's tail and track its flare Of tailback particles, with some that lay Close-latticed and returned to human view, Each with its cache of cosmic tales to tell.
  — Christopher Norris, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
• As if by magic, this quaff delivers everything there is to love about whiskey, but without the booze or harsh burning sensation.
  — Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• In the brief clip, Uchis blows on a shelf full of candles while rocking rollers in her hair, sparking flames as if by magic, before grabbing an envelope with the album’s title on it.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2025
• Hours of roasting tenderizes the meat so much that Salinas can pull the bones out with barely any effort, the baby rib racks dismantling before our eyes as if by magic.
  — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025