weird sisters
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of weird sisters
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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The weird sisters who hail him with prophecies of his future greatness don’t instruct him on what he must do to attain the throne.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2024
For me, it was more about if those weird sisters were around, what would they be doing?
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2022
Kathryn Hunter is downright otherworldly as all three of the shape-shifting, soothsaying weird sisters.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021
Those familiar with “Macbeth” will instantly recognize the play’s three witches, embodied here by the great Kathryn Hunter as Shakespeare’s weird sisters rolled into a startling, unsettling, utterly glorious one-woman chorus.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021
He said it reminded him of Boswell and himself when they stopped a night, as they imagined, where the weird sisters appeared to Macbeth.
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