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Example sentences for "charm against"

  • Flax, nevertheless, is a lucky plant, for in Thuringia, when a young woman gets married, she places flax in her shoes as a charm against poverty.

  • Buckthorn, a charm against witches on May Day, ii.

  • Froth from a mill-wheel as a charm against witches, ii.

  • Ammerland, in Oldenburg, cart-wheel used as charm against witchcraft in, x.

  • As we have already seen, it is a charm against snake-bite to smoke one of its feathers in a pipe.

  • We have already noticed the use of iron as a charm against hail.

  • So, the Greeks and Romans called the Cicada Mantis or "the soothsayer," and it is often delineated on their tombs as a charm against evil.

  • In the Panjab, it is a charm against snake-bite to smoke one of the tail feathers of the peacock in a tobacco pipe.

  • These were carried away and pasted up over the doors as a charm against pestilence.

  • The Rose is also associated in Westphalia with a charm against nose-bleeding and other haemorrhages.

  • The potency of red as a charm against small-pox is not unknown to European folk-lore.

  • Among Indians, Norwegians, and Central Africans, the foot of an elk was a charm against epilepsy.

  • Pepys (1664) carried about with him a hare’s foot as a charm against colic, i.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "charm against" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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