How to Use aura in a Sentence

aura

noun
  • The monastery perched high on a mountaintop had an aura of unreality and mystery about it.
  • Who lives on the block can change the whole aura of it.
    Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • This is, come on, there's gotta be some aura in these walls.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The aura of Vonn hovered around the bottom of the slope Friday.
    Pat Graham, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Will these steps liven up the show, or give it an aura of flop sweat?
    oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
  • In his first year on the Tour in 2011, Bradley witnessed Woods’ aura in person for the first time.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But put that guy in the clubhouse and there’s still an aura of celebrity.
    Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • What Swift has to offer, at this point, is an aura of cool.
    Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024
  • The aura around him, the sizzle in his wake, still hasn’t left Odell Beckham Jr.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
  • With his good-boy-next-door aura, this 18-year-old artist brings a fresh and distinct vibe to the genre.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 27 July 2022
  • At the club’s entrance on West 21st, a balmy aura of sage seeps through its glass doors and onto the street.
    Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Still, there was an aura of hope, as a who’s who of San Francisco filled the plaza.
    Heather Knight, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Will 2025 see a change to make the Magic Mouse look and feel like the aura of Apple promises?
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • But the close call cost Ford much of the aura of his incumbency.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Does the aura that enfolds it not lie at the rotten root of the story of Lydia Tár?
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Not even his aura could make up for the difference in talent on the field.
    Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
  • There was no mystique or aura that could change this game.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Daley expects the venue to embody the aura that has fueled the trend.
    Josh Glicksman, Billboard, 13 May 2024
  • The aura of Hosea Williams is all over the new facility.
    Ernie Suggs, ajc, 10 Nov. 2021
  • She is backlit by the L.A. sun, whose rays create an aura above her head.
    Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • So what you’re left behind with is sort of the aura of that history.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Others worked to keep the aura of the theater and its traditions alive.
    Sean Neumann, PEOPLE.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The different auras as well as eras Laufey straddles could be seen in her costume change at the Ford.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But he had long been intrigued by the aura of a Series opening game.
    New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • That aura of mystery persisted for the rest of Clarke’s life.
    Robert Hutton, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Hooper’s The eerie aura that surrounds the house in the movie even before the first victim steps across the threshold is long gone.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The results are a playful holiday twist on the aura nail trend.
    Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2023
  • If your eyes are the windows to your soul, your aura is a mirror to your energy.
    Monica Corcoran Harel, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The aura of the costuming for Daisy Jones & The Six is one of free-spiritedness, bohemia, and a dash of wild rock 'n' roll.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 9 Mar. 2023
  • So seeing him, talking to him and living in his aura was great.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2023

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