How to Use like magic in a Sentence

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• Food appeared like magic; there were no kitchens around for miles.
  — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• To my kid-eyes, the glass’s lack of wobble seemed like magic.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 23 July 2024
• Just the love and the look into each other's eyes was like magic.
  — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
• Art that moves you, love that consumes you, moments that feel like magic.
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025
• Something that felt a little like magic.
  — Jillian Pretzel, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
• Darius then added a missing note to the scale to form, like magic, a classic blues scale.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• The women’s harmonies ease in from offstage like magic, then build and swirl.
  — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2026
• Its technology might seem like magic to us.
  — Matthew Hutson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
• In our waterproof test, the water glided right off the pants like magic.
  — L.a. Hubilla, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
• Even after doing this for many years, the process of building fitness still feels like magic.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 25 Aug. 2022
• Because dressing up in costumes — that’s like magic from your childhood.
  — Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
• And then there’s the perception that the right pair of shoes can, like magic, enhance our prowess and change our lives.
  — David Nash, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2022
• Every smile, new expression, and tiny milestone feels like magic.
  — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
• Enchantment, one student answers, is like magic, like a spell.
  — Meg Anderson, NPR, 22 Mar. 2026
• In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings.
  — Deepa Bharath and Jessie Wardarski, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024
• Jot down your thoughts in the notebook; like magic, everything gets digitized through an app.
  — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• Advertisement These new tools can feel like magic.
  — Sam Jacobs, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
• Years ago my first experience with a Bluetooth speaker felt a bit like magic.
  — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
• Well, just like magic, this may be a reality soon enough—though not officially.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Their perfumes can be applied as a splash or a spray, and the latter is invisible in the bottle, like magic.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• The news that Udoka was on their radar didn’t materialize like magic.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
• Nonetheless, in May and June, horseshoe crabs appear here, like magic, around full and new moons.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 28 June 2024
• In the next image, words appear like magic through the power of digital processing.
  — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2024
• But add a little dish soap to a toothpick or a Q-tip and touch the food coloring, and the colors will swirl around on their own like magic.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 1 June 2022
• Without that frame, a successful writing day can feel like magic or luck — and by extension, beyond my control.
  — Jasna Hodžić, Big Think, 10 Mar. 2026
• Body hair removal creams are one of these methods as their creamy, lotion-like formulas work sort of like magic to lift away unwanted stubble.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 2024
• Connecting to the Internet in the midst of Beryl's mayhem seems a little bit like magic.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024
• Songs were falling together like magic in slow pursuit of something more elusive than perfection.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2024
• Carmel spoke with awe and play experts to uncover the secret of how to go back to a childhood state where falling rain seemed like magic and the tooth fairy might be real.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Nightingale firmly believed light should showcase the grandeur of plants and objects – but with its sources hidden or camouflaged, like magic.
  — Cheri Mossburg, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025