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Example sentences for "hoodoo"

Lexicographically close words:
hooded; hoodie; hoodlike; hoodlum; hoodlums; hoodooed; hoods; hoodwink; hoodwinked; hoodwinking
  1. The mysterious way it was found abandoned gave sailor men the impression that there was a hoodoo of some kind connected with it, and they wouldn't ship aboard her.

  2. That would put the hoodoo on us for fair.

  3. Some of de darkies tole him, 'Rich been to de hoodoo doctor.

  4. Well, in his day, he done seed a nigger hoodoo dem dogs 'ca'se dey had nigger dogs after S'render too.

  5. I neber hyeard ob no hoodoo stuff, 'till I was grown, an' anudder thing folks didn't die of lack dey do now.

  6. No'm we didn't know nothin' 'bout no hoodoo stuff in dem days.

  7. I wudda split dat nigger wide open, jes' lak I split dem rails, iffen he try dat hoodoo on me.

  8. She could not say: "There was hoodoo on it, and this ragged woollen mitt seems hoodoo-like to me.

  9. Well, if this hasn't been a hoodoo cruise from Boston, I don't know a thing!

  10. But Rockland had a pitcher who more than once proved a hoodoo for Camden.

  11. But the worst of it is," Moslof went on, "Rockland has a pitcher who is a hoodoo for Camden.

  12. He had seemed to hoodoo Camden, and Rocklandites hoped he would keep up the good work.

  13. She did not return to college to finish out the senior course, and the hoodoo suite was dismantled forever of her fine trappings and furniture.

  14. Adele occupied what the girls now called the "hoodoo suite" at Beta Phi.

  15. As he tugged at it, Hoodoo dying and convulsed struck out with his fore legs and caught the unlucky soldier full in the belly.

  16. Hoodoo pitched forward, rose with a gallant effort, and sinking down rolled to left upon the rider's leg.

  17. Master John, I been looking for you all night and this morning I found Hoodoo dead.

  18. As I checked Hoodoo a shot rang out from a clump of pines on my right and a horseman leaped into the road some twenty yards in front of me.

  19. I rode Hoodoo down an icy hill with a sharp lookout for their pickets.

  20. He mounted and touched Hoodoo with the spur.

  21. Tiny's hoodoo was apparently on the job again.

  22. So great is the power of suggestion, that from that moment the hoodoo vanished.

  23. Well,” Jule announced, “I’ll set up a yell the first boat comes near us and your hoodoo lottery tickets will probably land you in jail.

  24. That lottery ticket hoodoo is one that is safe to bet on at any spot in the road,” Mike continued.

  25. Why these new men should be more troubled by the silly tattle of the hoodoo than even the Portygees had been was a problem Tunis could not solve.

  26. Well, what do you think of the hoodoo ship, Horrors?

  27. And one morning in the Hoodoo country, where we were looking for sheep, we came round a jut of the strange, organ-pipe formation upon a longlegged boy of about nineteen, also hunting.

  28. The Virginian broke off a piece of the Hoodoo mud-rock from the weird eroded pillar that we stood beside.

  29. I warned yuh, didn't I, the Shoe-Bar was a hoodoo outfit?

  30. Ah's got de bigges' notion dat evah was tuh put a hoodoo on dat hotel.

  31. Cato's hoodoo luck followed him right along in his game with the overworked-looking man, who seemed to me to have considerable of a job covering up a natural sort of deftness he had in handling a pack.

  32. I never in my life before or since saw such hoodoo luck as Cato had in that game with those stockmen.

  33. But I was bunking up with such a hoodoo that I sloughed off even this rake-off, and when the thing happened that I am going to tell you about I only had $70 left out of the cozy cush I had started in the season with.

  34. Carl thought that was their hoodoo day, but he had occasion to change his mind.

  35. Smoking 'cause dat hoodoo debble done got in it," and Chloe rolled her great eyes until nothing showed but the whites.

  36. A hoodoo is a kind of wicked charm, like the evil eye, Harry," Madge explained, her eyes twinkling.

  37. But you'll know a hoodoo all right if it gets hold of you.

  38. By sheer force of will Lois refused to see him as sacrificing to the hoodoo or the voodoo of which her mother's letters had apprised her.

  39. He's simply sacrificing to the hoodoo or the voodoo that he sees behind us--just like any other Masterman.

  40. Hoodoo "My wife was sick, down, couldn't do nothin'.

  41. Honey don' you know that if you make a hole in a tree and put a hair from the head of the person you want to hoodoo in the tree and seal it up in there the person will go crazy.

  42. She wanted my ole man and she thought she would hoodoo me and ahd die and she'd get him.

  43. Cain Robertson was a hoodoo doctor in Georgia.

  44. He lives about two miles and a half down the Junction City Highway and he is a hoodoo man.

  45. Each member of this hoodoo horde Surrounded Tim with fierce ado And with long, cruel gimlets bored His aching system through and through, And while they labored all night long The nightmare neighed a dismal song.

  46. At last, fantastic, wild, and weird, And clad in garments ghastly grim, A scowling hoodoo band appeared And joined in worrying little Tim.

  47. Luck plays the biggest kind of a part in a game like this, and I don't intend to hoodoo myself by taking the car out on Friday.

  48. Taking a car out on Friday was as nothing compared to driving a car with such a hoodoo number.

  49. Jack said he would hoodoo Harvard, and he has!

  50. Jack says Frank Merriwell has been Harvard's hoodoo in everything.

  51. While the sporting fraternity is notoriously addicted to the hoodoo superstition, yet it is by no means confined to them alone.

  52. Most players are said to give full credit to the power of the hoodoo to bewitch them.

  53. Up at the Elbow Canyon camp it's a hoodoo bogey, and down here it's the Craigmiles cow-boys.

  54. And you say that the hoodoo hasn't got around to using high explosives yet, eh?

  55. It's the hoodoo that is making an old man of me before my time.

  56. Now, you will have the goodness to keep up that fancy, if you please; and to swear to them, on the authority of Hoodoo or whatever his name may be, that I am from this moment quite a sacred character.

  57. There's surely some hoodoo on board this ship.

  58. Look what a hoodoo she's been to us all this trip.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoodoo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alchemy; amulet; bewitch; charm; curse; divination; enchant; enchantment; fetish; fetishism; glamour; hoodoo; jinx; magic; magical; mascot; necromancy; necromantic; obsess; overlook; phylactery; possess; rune; scarab; spell; swastika; talisman; thaumaturgy; theurgy; voodoo; weird; witch; witchcraft; witchery; wizardry