Witching is an English word with synonyms like charming or magic. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Witching in a sentence
Related words
Witching meaning
- Of or pertaining to witchcraft or sorcery, or to witches or sorcerers.
- Of a person: having the power to bewitch someone or something.
- Bewitching, enchanting.
Using Witching
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to witchcraft or sorcery, or to witches or sorcerers. | Of a person: having the power to bewitch someone or something. | Bewitching, enchanting.
- Useful related words include: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous.
- In the example corpus, witching often appears in combinations such as: witching hour, quadruple witching, the witching.
Context around Witching
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Witching
- In this selection, "witching" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, quadruple, quad, triple, hour, day and rod stand out and add context to how "witching" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 16 quad witching options expiration and a quadruple witching day wall. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "witching" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with witching
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It was like a witching rod. (6 words)
This method is sometimes known as "willow witching". (8 words)
It's the closest to that witching hour we've ever been. (12 words)
A Y- or L-shaped twig or rod, called a dowsing rod, divining rod (Latin: virgula divina or baculus divinatorius), a "vining rod" or witching rod is sometimes used during dowsing, although some dowsers use other equipment or no equipment at all. (42 words)
Friday was a quadruple “witching day," Wall Street-speak for the quarterly expiration of stock options and futures contracts, which forces traders to tie up loose ends in contracts they hold, leading to particularly heavy trading volume. (37 words)
Trading volume is expected to spike, especially during the opening and close of Friday’s session on account of “quadruple witching,” as investors unwind interests in futures and options contracts prior to expiration. (33 words)
The Witching Hour: Episode 4 - Do Stephen King Adaptations Work Better on Film or TV? (15 words)
Example sentences (14)
I’ll dig into the state of momentum in the market… and eye the June 16 Quad Witching (options expiration event).
The week ends with the simultaneous expiration of stock options, stock index futures, and stock index options contracts in a trader's paradise known as triple-witching day.
It was a witching hour - a haunted hour - a night of monsters and madmen, curses and candy.
Friday was a quadruple “witching day," Wall Street-speak for the quarterly expiration of stock options and futures contracts, which forces traders to tie up loose ends in contracts they hold, leading to particularly heavy trading volume.
It's the closest to that witching hour we've ever been.
Trading volume is expected to spike, especially during the opening and close of Friday’s session on account of “quadruple witching,” as investors unwind interests in futures and options contracts prior to expiration.
It was like a witching rod.
The sun appears larger during those witching hours because of atmospheric light dispersal.
The Witching Hour: Episode 4 - Do Stephen King Adaptations Work Better on Film or TV?
Though sophisticated attacks require long-term preparation, they can be executed at targets (like single points of failure) and timing (such as “quadruple witching days”) for maximum disruption.
To put it simply, these photos of (possibly) Vivian’s Antichrist baby were posted around the witching hour.
A Y- or L-shaped twig or rod, called a dowsing rod, divining rod (Latin: virgula divina or baculus divinatorius), a "vining rod" or witching rod is sometimes used during dowsing, although some dowsers use other equipment or no equipment at all.
Sometimes they appear in the form of the three witches from DC's horror anthology, The Witching Hour : Mildred, Mordred, and Cynthia.
This method is sometimes known as "willow witching".
Common combinations with witching
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: