Sentence examples for superstitious notion from inspiring English sources
I seem to be unable to do so, nagged by a superstitious notion that if I do, I will cut all my ties with my childhood.
Although the lunch had originally been planned for eleven, a twelfth guest was invited with the superstitious notion that any large group should include a stranger, who might very well be an angel in disguise.
Farhad is an ordinary student whose drinking and interest in women has taken him a very long way from his religiously conservative grandfather's superstitious notion that reciting one of the 99 names of God will invariably protect a good Muslim in any difficult or dangerous situation.
This mysterious rainfall of gossamer had once been the cause of strange and superstitious notions.
The writer has original and contemporary documents which would seem sufficient to refute this and other superstitious notions inherited by Protestants, both as to history and biography.
As far as he is concerned, the existence of God, the freedom of the will, and an afterlife are "superstitious notions unworthy of the 21st century".
The majority of people happily ridicule as superstitious nonsense the notion that aliens from Planet X were going to land on Mount Rtanj deep in the Carpathian range in Serbia (I kid you not: it's on the internet).
The superstitious had had many strange notions about it, but of course it was simply owing to the peculiarly clear condition of the atmosphere and the favorable position of the planet at that time.
Gordon Burn, in his novel Fullalove, published in 1995, was probably the first writer to pay serious attention to the withered bouquets that accumulated near the sites of lethal accidents – it seemed a superstitious Catholic observance in a country that had yet to have old notions of itself stood on their head by the public grieving for the Princess of Wales.
The notion in "Tom's Divorce" that the fourth floor refers to tetraphobia, the superstitious fear of the number four.
Why are people superstitious?
