evil eye

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for evil eye
Noun
  • Witnesses recall seeing sufferers with so many pox on their faces that their features were no longer identifiable.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
  • After two weeks, the pox usually began to scab.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Turns out the island's rotting dead are rising from the grave—the result of a voodoo curse.
    James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025
  • Swinford allegedly wanted to carry out an attack during Mardi Gras at the voodoo temple.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Ancient 'pharaoh's curse' fungus shows promise in killing cancer cells.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2025
  • The song breaks Booth's life-defining generational curse.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • This is what Jesse, Scott, Jax Taylor, and all the rest of the people who are about to fall under the spell of a man who sports an unironic goatee fail to understand.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 June 2025
  • And the record-breaking hot spell is going to continue.
    Jade Walker, CNN Money, 25 June 2025
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“Evil eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil%20eye. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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