How to Use mana in a Sentence

mana

noun

• If your pedigree is from the gods, you are born with some form of mana.
  — Taylor Weik /, NBC News, 9 May 2018
• To use a land card to pay mana, tap the land card by turning it sideways.
  — Bailey Gates, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
• The bones of such a powerful man were, to them, a source of immense mana.
  — Austin Murphy, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• The rest of our ramp will be coming in the form of treasures and immediate mana.
  — Joe Parlock, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Stops were frequent, sometimes just to soak up the views and the palpable mana that seemed to vibrate everywhere.
  — Eric Hiss, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
• Among Native Hawaiians, human remains are believed to retain the mana, or essence, of the deceased.
  — Sophie Cocke, ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2020
• Surfers talk of feeling the mana, a Polynesian word for spiritual energy, here.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2023
• As in Castlevania, their ammo count is based on a mana meter that must be restored through exploration and killing enemies.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2022
• Akana also sees the portrait itself as an embodiment of Queen Liliʻuokalani’s mana, or spirit.
  — Kate C. Lemay, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• Whenever a creature attacks you, make a Clue artifact token, which can be sacrificed alongside paying two mana to draw a card.
  — Joe Parlock, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• Leading metaverse tokens like Decentraland’s mana and the Sandbox’s sand are down more than 70% over the past year.
  — Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• What's more, the demo didn't even have a UI system to test in terms of inventory menus or on-screen indicators (health, arrows, mana).
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 Aug. 2017
• What's more, the demo didn't even have a UI system to test in terms of inventory menus or on-screen indicators (health, arrows, mana).
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 15 June 2017
• But a significant advantage for Solitude over Swords is that can be played with its evoke cost of exiling one other white card from your hand – no mana needed.
  — Joe Parlock, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• New York’s cultural notables were being blessed or knighted, infused with the divine mana of creativity.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 14 Mar. 2010
• Native Hawaiians understand that mana—spiritual energy, which can be gained and lost by a person over time—could only be traced through one’s mother.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2020
• And once again, big daddy is completely surrounded by beautiful estrogen and loving, powerful female mana.
  — Jackie Frere, Redbook, 12 Dec. 2017
• Mana regenerates automatically and fully, for instance, so there's no reason to hold back because of limited mana potions.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2017
• And what Moana has represented is a really awesome global embrace of Polynesian culture, our values and our qualities and our pride and our mana.
  — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
• Everything was unique and had, honestly, a different vibe and a mana to it that was really intoxicating and motivating and inspiring.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Showing the reverence Polynesians have for stones and their living mana (or energy), Beno explained that foundations like these were named and passed down through generations.
  — Eric Hiss, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
• The bot won the first two games with ease, with a style of play that was heavily focused on objectives—pushing the enemy team's towers, controlling the map—and sustaining its heroes' health and mana during long engagements.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2018
• The WoW team has already crunched player stats like health and mana down on multiple occasions as a way to postpone fully solving the problem, so this is the culmination of something that has been underway for a few years now.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2019
• This would suggest that at least for one hero mana is being reworked and seemingly removed, which would suggest that a new system where abilities do not cost mana but potentially something else is being introduced, which would be a first for Dota 2.
  — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The best time to go may be in April, when large herds of elephants, buffalo, kudu, and the elusive eland return to the four (or mana in the local language) large permanent pools along the south bank of the Zambezi River after the rainy season.
  — Kitson Jazynka, National Geographic, 14 June 2019