Example Sentences

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Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Scripture and natal charts existed in tandem, along with palm-reading diagrams, recipes for potions and instructions for alchemical reactions.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

This is a job for a seasoned administrator, but sure, might as well give it to the TV host hawking magic potions.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2024

Women would terminate pregnancies in several different ways, such as ingesting herbs or medicinal potions that were thought to induce a miscarriage, Dr. Schoen said.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2024

Even though she knew which potions were which, Anya still labeled each of them with a different colored bit of yarn tied around the mouth.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack