How to Use genie in a Sentence

genie

noun
  • He rubbed the magic lamp to summon the genie.
  • This genie is now very much out of the bottle.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The genie can’t be put back in the bottle.
    — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • The genie is out of the bottle and won't be put back in.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The genie can’t be put back in the bottle.
    — Greg Friedman, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The genie is out of the bottle.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 1 May 2026
  • The genie was out of the bottle.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • That genie is out of the bottle.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2026
  • But there seems to be no putting this genie back in the bottle.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Once the genie is out of the bottle there’s no putting it back.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The genie was out of the bottle.
    — Nick El Hajj, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Once that genie is out, there’s no putting it back in the bottle.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The genie’s out of the bottle, and there’s no putting it back.
    — Craig Carton, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Once that genie was out of the bottle, there was no putting it back in.
    — The Athletic Colleges Staff, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • On the left is a pot, as bulbous as a genie and as big as an igloo.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Once the genie is out of the bottle, there is no turning back.
    — Bruce Grant, Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2024
  • The genie is out of the bottle, and out of control.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The genie is not going back in the bottle.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
  • So that genie can’t go back in the bottle, either.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Still, the genie is already out of the bottle.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • There is no button to press, no magic spell to cast, no genie’s lamp to rub.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 2 Mar. 2021
  • And of course, there’s no turning back — the genie is very much out of the bottle.
    — Jennifer Green, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
  • Daniel, one of the genies, once had a couple ask for their suite to be filled with flowers.
    — Fortune, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Daniel, one of the genies, once had a couple ask for their suite to be filled with flowers.
    — Brandon Presser, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Daniel, one of the genies, once had a couple ask for their suite to be filled with flowers.
    — Brandon Presser, sacbee, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Inflation is the genie that cannot be stuffed back in the bottle.
    — James Berman, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But the genie of populism is now out of the bottle and there is no going back.
    — Jeff Kingston, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Christmas is the most magical time of year — so why not add a genie to the mix?
    — EW.com, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The lamp post seemed to suck it out of me, like a genie returning to its bottle.
    — Longreads, 15 June 2018
  • The Supreme Court did, which is why the genie is out of the bottle.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 July 2021

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