How to Use pentagram in a Sentence

pentagram

noun
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  • There is a reference to the Bible passage Luke 10:18 stitched on the side and a bronze pentagram on the laces.
    — Allison Prang, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
  • In addition, the five frogs are arranged like the points of a pentagram.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 9 Sep. 2019
  • On the wood planks making up the theater’s floor is what appears to be a pentagram.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The shoes are adorned with a pentagram pendant and a reference to the Bible verse Luke 10:18, which talks about Satan’s fall from heaven.
    — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The teen assailants carved a pentagram into her chest before Pike smashed her skull with a chunk of asphalt.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 24 May 2024
  • At a recent dinner, joined by a small coterie of postdocs, Arkani-Hamed drew a pentagram on a napkin.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2015
  • At the center of the store sits a giant autographed pentagram that was once used as a tour and album cover prop by the '70s-'80s punk band Plasmatics.
    — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But Wise’s ink includes a pentagram and the words suicide and heaven – all prominently displayed on his head.
    — Shaun Brady, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
  • Downstairs, below the dinner table, June the catering manager slash witch stood in the middle of a pentagram drawn in blood.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 July 2021
  • Both the temple’s statue and the Sabrina statue feature a winged creature with a horned goat’s head and a pentagram on its forehead.
    — Josephine Yurcaba, Teen Vogue, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Some of my accessories have illustrations of cats, knives, spiders, skulls, moons, and pentagrams, to name a few.
    — Monique Brown, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The pentagram, like the amplituhedron, is defined by a finite set of lines crossing at a finite number of points.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2015
  • The young daughter of a follower in Gene Simmons-tall heeled boots sat quietly off to the side, wearing a T-shirt with a pentagram logo and reading a phone.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The memorial consists of a black steel cube with an empty soldier’s helmet on top and golden pentagram symbols along the sides.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 9 May 2017
  • The result of a campaign by the Satanic Temple, the monument will be a black box with an upturned helmet on top, while the inverted pentagram will decorate the side of the box.
    — Peter Wade, Esquire, 7 May 2017
  • Perfectly off the beaten path with knowledgeable bartenders and a great selection of t-shirts with pentagrams on them.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • And its horror artwork comes with an array of suitably nasty beasties, plus more pentagrams than a Slayer concert.
    — Owen Duffy, Ars Technica, 22 June 2019
  • The sneakers, priced at $1,018 and decorated with a bronze pentagram pendant and a drop of human blood, quickly drew outrage online.
    — oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2021
  • But even the appearance of the pentagram set Twitter ablaze with suggestions of Satanic worship.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2017
  • The sneakers are based on Nike’s Air Max 97, though with some distinct departures from the original — including a pentagram pendant and a drop of human blood in every sole.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Ferguson wore all black and was covered in piercings and tattoos, including an ornate pentagram on his head.
    — New York Times, 26 May 2022
  • Were symbols of evil (the pentagram instead of the swastika this time) once again inciting legions of the discontented to overthrow an existing order?
    — Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
  • And a cult has been leaving shambolic traces around town (candles, entrails, pentagrams), its members somehow not having gotten the memo that the hippie thing is finished, done for, kaput.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • The billboard includes a pentagram that frames a goat’s head, according to the release, and lists a website that details the Satanic Temple’s campaign against corporal punishment.
    — Sarah Larimer, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Videos posted to social media by Rise of the Moors showed members dressed in paramilitary gear and displaying military-style weapons and a Moroccan flag, which features a green pentagram on a field of crimson red.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021
  • Following on the heels of EW’s first look at season 15, the poster combines many aspects of the show: Baby, angel wings, a pentagram, the Winchesters’ anti-possession tattoo, and what is seemingly the stairway to heaven, among other things.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • During his questioning, Dio claimed to have a message for the authorities before showing off his pentagram and speaking in his fictional language.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The city on Tuesday night may ban all unattended displays, including religious symbols such as pentagrams and nativity scenes.
    — Aric Chokey, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 July 2017
  • After a long court battle, the pentagram – a five-pointed star associated with Wicca – became an accepted symbol for military gravestones in 2007.
    — Helen A. Berger, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The cross will return to the park, but so will a memorial donated by the Satanic Temple, a political organization that promotes freedom of religious expression using satanic symbolism like the pentagram and a strong sense of satire.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 9 May 2017

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