weird sisters
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of weird sisters
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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For me, it was more about if those weird sisters were around, what would they be doing?
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2022
Kathryn Hunter is downright otherworldly as all three of the shape-shifting, soothsaying weird sisters.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021
Those familiar with “Macbeth” will instantly recognize the play’s three witches, embodied here by the great Kathryn Hunter as Shakespeare’s weird sisters rolled into a startling, unsettling, utterly glorious one-woman chorus.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021
The most famous of this type must be Shakespeare’s weird sisters from Macbeth.
From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2018
Again, we find the Roman witches, like the weird sisters of Macbeth, employing the wolf in their incantations: "Utque lupi barbam variæ cum dente colubræ Abdiderint furtim terris."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
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