How to Use mage in a Sentence

mage

noun
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  • Why should Geoffrey the fighter be the only one to get the good plate mail or Mariah the mage be the only one who can equip the powerful magic wand?
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Many of the mages evoke an alternative world, evidence of unimaginable strength and spirit in the face death and torture.
    — Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Many of the mages evoke an alternative world, evidence of unimaginable strength and spirit in the face death and torture.
    — Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2017
  • One of the monsters created was Kitsu, an elf mage, who was crossbred with a mahr, a being of illusion.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • His interview subject could be a piano-loving mage with a fishbowl head who commands a mega-yacht with a cat crew.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 May 2020
  • The film opens with a pile of exposition and a gargantuan battle between mages and men.
    — John Serba | [email protected], NOLA.com, 12 May 2017
  • Routh will play the central role of warrior-mage Gideon, and the character is also getting a prequel book to accompany the series.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • In energy circles, the people who work on transmission are feared and respected in the same way a shriveled and reputable local mage might be.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
  • This love letter to RPGs of the past follows a young time mage named Crisbell, who gains the ability to see the past, present, and future simultaneously by way of a time crystal.
    — Brittany Vincent, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2019
  • In this mage from the NOAA-20 satellite, the white and green shades represent thick cloud cover reflecting incoming solar energy back to space.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Stregobor, the arrogant old mage trying to maintain the control of the Brotherhood?
    — Scott Meslow, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Positioning is key in this battle system; placing a fighter in front of a mage to protect the latter from many attacks is a good strategy, for instance.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 26 Mar. 2018
  • For example, a mage doing a big spell cast with a whirling staff could have organic layers like stretching packing tape to get the electricity and spraying fences with pressure washers to get the whoosh.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 23 Mar. 2022
  • There’s also a fantastic mages’ ball on Aretuza, which is a visual showstopper in design and storytelling.
    — Carole Horst, Variety, 29 June 2023
  • The battle ended with Yennefer seemingly roasting all of the Nilfgaard armies during the chaos on the rock with a fire spell, but not immediately exploding into ash like her fellow mages.
    — Tanya Edwards, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The revised mythology begins with a war between men and mages, magical beings who arrive behind an army led by gigantic elephants.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 10 May 2017
  • These are mere suggestions; building up to be a powerful mage or knight warrior all depends on the player’s investments in statistics after every level up.
    — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Aside from this fastidiousness, King attributed his success as a mage to his considerable goldsmithing skills.
    — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • Of course, those spells also have combat utility (for example, letting a squishy spell caster stay untouchable above a horde of melee enemies, or allowing a melee fighter to soar through the air to combat a flying enemy mage).
    — Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2021
  • Total War: Warhammer 2 rewarded this with skill points to make the general a consummate administrator, radical mage, and inspiring presence for his troops.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Naturally, this doesn't sit well with the traditionalist mother superior, commandingly played by Kim Peterson, who has the vocal power to match her steely mage.
    — Tom Titus, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Spiral Rethink Astronomers have long known from astronomical mages that galaxies fall into three shape categories: elliptical blobs, irregular shapes and spirals.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023

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