Sentence examples for Strega from high-quality English sources.

• ‘Strega’ means female witch in Italian.

• This novel is his effort to free himself from it—“to get rid of it, not to remember it,” he said after “The Catholic School” won the Strega Prize.

• One good thing, though, is that her book (which was highly favoured for this year's Strega prize) cannot be accused of revelling in the sordid detail of these subjects, as some purportedly serious Internet sites do.

• Move over Ferrante, there’s a new Elena in town – Elena Varvello, a poet, short-story writer and novelist whose work has won her critical acclaim in her native Italy, including a nomination for the Premio Strega, the Italian equivalent of the Man Booker Prize.

• Galliano is sweeter than Strega and slightly lower in alcohol.

• It became a best-seller in its native land, and was awarded the Strega Prize (previously given to Bassani, Elsa Morante, Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, et al.).

• Laughter varietal: The kind where the other avenues of emotional release have been exhausted and your oven is disgorging baked goods with a Strega Nona swiftness and people are sick and dying and the President is a monster.

• When Strega Nona goes away to visit her friend Strega Amelia, over the mountain, Anthony sees his chance to prove the pot’s powers to the jeering townspeople who have long doubted what they saw as his tall tales.

Use Strega in a sentence.

• When O’Hara includes, in his poems, urine and sequins, aspirins and Strega, it’s not because he is addicted to reality—on the contrary, he is addicted to artistic transformation, and is distressed by the fact that bits of the world haven’t been subjected to mimesis, and preserved by it.

• The thickset, clever Strega Nona, however, arriving back home from her sojourn just in time, not only stops the noodles from destroying the town but also gives Anthony the punishment he deserves. “ ‘I want to sleep in my little bed tonight,” she says, handing him a fork, and commanding him to “start eating!”

• In what is perhaps my favorite Strega Nona book, “Big Anthony and the Magic Ring,” from 1979, the lovable dolt once again attempts to snatch some of his employer’s magical powers for himself, slipping on a golden ring that turns him into a thick-maned, cleft-chinned hunk whom all the women at the village dance want to couple with.

• The collection Cinque storie ferraresi (1956; Five Stories of Ferrara, also published as Prospect of Ferrara; reissued as Dentro le mura, 1973, “Inside the Walls”), five novellas that describe the growth of fascism and anti-Semitism, brought Bassani his first commercial success and the Strega Prize (offered annually for the best Italian literary work).

• My first encounter with the figure of a witch in popular culture—apart from those in kids’ movies like Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty” and M-G-M’s “The Wizard of Oz,” or in books like Tomie dePaola’s “Strega Nona” and Roald Dahl’s “The Witches”—was in a campy scene from Oliver Stone’s 1991 bio-pic, “The Doors,” depicting Jim Morrison (played by Val Kilmer) and one of his lovers, a Wiccan witch (a character played by Kathleen Quinlan, and based on the rock journalist Patricia Kennealy, who reportedly married the singer in a Celtic handfasting ceremony, in 1970).