How to Use supernatural in a Sentence

supernatural

adjective
  • At times, the movie has the moody feel of a supernatural suspense thriller, not a comic-book-style showdown.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The corpse of someone who died by violence was thought to bleed in the presence of his or her killer, a kind of supernatural proof of crime.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • One of them gets too close and begins to make his life hell, and the kid has to utilize all his supernatural mojo to save his loved ones.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Each man needs guidance — and gets it — from a supernatural source.
    Peter J. Travers, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
  • For Chekhov, all-too-human rage and passion are about as supernatural as the world ever gets.
    Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Then peel the star off for supernatural skin, just like PinkPantheress, all day long.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 25 Aug. 2023
  • This supernatural horror film gets your heart rate up with some of the most unpredictable jolts.
    Leigh Hewett, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • In the 1930s, a boatman on the Paraná River kidnapped and devoured children in the name of a supernatural being, El Horario.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
  • And the body is transformed once a supernatural passenger is on board.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • Kids are being peer-pressured to take a hit of supernatural powers that none of them can control.
    WIRED, 29 July 2023
  • The police and town grapple with a murder that doesn’t make sense — and consider that supernatural forces may be at play.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
  • Schnapp plays Will Byers on the series, one of the main characters in an ensemble of kids who fight supernatural creatures in the 1980s.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Not so much in the upcoming A24 supernatural horror Talk to Me.
    Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • This is a very light supernatural, with a sense of the world being wide and wondrous rather than a concrete magical system like Marske’s.
    Olivia Waite, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The Rabbis were greatly influenced by tales of the supernatural, as long as these elements were a force for good.
    Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The most popular supernatural sightings include a demon dog that's said to be guarding the gates to the castle, and the ghost of a woman with no facial features.
    Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Two teenage boys and a teen girl with psychic powers set about ghost-busting in present-day London in this new supernatural drama.
    cleveland, 22 Jan. 2023
  • That's what differs this show from a lot of other supernatural shows, and that's why audience members have fallen in love with it.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In the sequence, the Warrens receive a phone call from Father Gordon, who has some kind of supernatural emergency on his hands.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 9 Sep. 2023
  • What if a supernatural entity meticulously planned the downfall of Waystar Royco and the death of the Roy bloodline?
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • So smash goes the jar in a locker-room sequence that brings Sam’s ugliest fears to the fore, unleashing the ravenous supernatural force trapped inside.
    Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The group’s long-term goals were ambitious: to expose the Chinese Communist Party and to save the world in a supernatural war against communism.
    Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Given the ominous hints at a supernatural presence in the woods (that have, for one, kept Jackie’s charred body intact for the eventual feast), what else will they be coaxed into?
    Radhika Menon, ELLE, 30 Mar. 2023
  • When Christmas and her family are threatened by supernatural forces, her Mama Bear instincts kick in to the fullest.
    Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The Final Chapter explores the idea that Jason isn’t mortal and has some supernatural power.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • In a desperate plea for salvation, the police are forced to enlist Holy Night, a trio of demon hunters armed with supernatural powers.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
  • At the same time, ask him for his supernatural advocacy.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Three species of bats inhabit the castle, and supernatural events, including the appearance of the gamekeeper’s ghost and the wail of a banshee, have been reported.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2023
  • When Jack Torrance takes a job as the off-season caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, he becomes possessed by the building’s supernatural forces.
    Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 30 June 2023
  • But Take Note The biggest complaint parents have about these pacifiers is their supernatural ability to attract pet hair, dust, and fuzz.
    Sarah Bradley, Parents, 1 Mar. 2024

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