Sentence examples for superstitiously from high-quality English sources.

• It was a mark of her obsessiveness that she felt almost superstitiously particular about where she wrote each part.

• I would read it every day, almost superstitiously, before writing and it gave me easier entry to that dark place where nebulous ideas fuse into something intelligible, where creativity sits and madness lurks.

• The enormous body of Picasso’s work remains, and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre…piercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive.

• Suppose that Ingrid ignores a great deal of excellent evidence indicating that a given neighborhood is dangerous, but superstitiously comes to believe that the neighborhood is dangerous when she sees a black cat crossing the street.

• I used to superstitiously believe that as long as the block was over there, across my desk, I had nothing to worry about.

• Don’t go to Lincoln.’ ” She was referring to the Bronx hospital where Sanabria was born, and which he held in almost superstitiously high esteem.

• “A Life’s Work” is at once a cri de coeur, a prison diary, and a repudiation of Catholic Mary-worship (even though she prays “superstitiously” to the Virgin in a moment of “madness”).

• You would assume that it was instilling, or reinforcing, or rebooting attitudes and beliefs that this hypothetical civilization regarded—maybe correctly, maybe just superstitiously—as vital to its functioning.

Use superstitiously in a sentence.

• Behind him was a woman Eva thought she knew, a short woman in a navy suit, who seemed almost superstitiously not to look toward the Biga house—and, yes, it was their house, Eva and Gerald’s, that she was looking at, their gate she opened, their path she stepped onto.

• One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.

• I really did not expect any Grace to answer; for the laugh was as tragic, as preternatural a laugh as any I ever heard; and, but that it was high noon, and that no circumstance of ghostliness accompanied the curious cachinnation; but that neither scene nor season favoured fear, I should have been superstitiously afraid. 

• As long as it lasted I made use of it to minute down the days of the month on which any remarkable thing happened to me; and first, by casting up times past, I remembered that there was a strange concurrence of days in the various providences which befell me, and which, if I had been superstitiously inclined to observe days as fatal or fortunate, I might have had reason to have looked upon with a great deal of curiosity.

• The ceremony did quite well without a host, replacing the single m.c. with a varied and surprising batch of presenters, including (among many others) Brian Tyree Henry and Melissa McCarthy (whose extravagant outfit and puppet show was one of the comedic highlights of the ceremony); Queen Latifah; Angela Bassett; Javier Bardem (who spoke in Spanish to endorse the power of art to defy borders); Keegan-Michael Key, who descended on wires, Mary Poppins style, with an open umbrella (which I thought, superstitiously yet rightly, would bring bad luck); Trevor Noah, whose references to “Black Panther” were capped with a joke about Mel Gibson’s racist remarks; Michelle Yeoh; and KiKi Layne.