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• The wizard conjured up a large fireball.From the entry wizard
• The only outfit I could conjure up was a capacious linen shift and a saggy cotton-wool cardigan.2025 July 7, Annie Lowrey, “I Fought Plastic. Plastic Won.”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN. From the entry capacious
• The damsel-in-distress archetype probably conjures up images of delicate maidens and chivalrous gentlemen.2020 May 27, Ruby Hamad, “A White Damsel Leveraged Racial Power and Failed”, in New York Times. From the entry damsel in distress
• That's when I discovered I had aphantasia, the inability to conjure mental images.2020 July 15, Serena Puang, “Living with aphantasia, the inability to make mental images”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry aphantasia
• Watching Adama Traore in full flow has a tendency to conjure up all manner of images.2020 January 24, Tim Spiers, James Pearce, “Even Jurgen Klopp says Adama Traore is ‘pretty much unplayable’ – but what is it actually like…. From the entry American footballer
• Traditionally, these were both used to conjure spirits or to appease them.2016, ALSALHI, AHMAD ALI. "ṢAUT IN BAHRAIN AND KUWAIT: History and Creativity in Concept and Practice." (p. 27). From the entry Ayam
• How ridiculous it sounded then, a word that conjured up images of urinary infections and squished buttocks.2013 May 10, Rachel Braier, “The trouser is so now in the singular world of fashion”, in The Guardian. From the entry jeggings
• The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page…. From the entry abuse
• For instance, Sony Pictures Imageworks can conjure a throbbing pink brain that lives in a torchlighted castle.2001, The New York Times Film Reviews 1999-2000, page 415. From the entry torchlighted
• Rather, it was an imagined nation conjured up from ancient Hellas.1999 March, Sean McMeekin, “The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships”, in Literary Review. From the entry Hellas
• Tess, modern and sleek for Teresa, which conjured up cobblestoned streets in a mountain village in Potenza.1999, Ed McBain, The Big Bad City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry teresa
• To conjure pigwidgeons and pandemoniacs from those regions which are forever night.1994, Robert Rankin, Raiders of the Lost Car Park, page 43. From the entry pandemoniac
• In the Eddas, Odin conjures up a dead volva and questions her about Baldur's fate.1988, Freya Aswinn, Runes & Feminine Powers: Northern Mysteries & Magick, page 30. From the entry völva
• Readers will conjure up many a conjecture over who's who in this literary gallery.1937 September 27, “Fiction: Recent Books”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2012. From the entry who's who
• Meanwhile, the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured, and finally claimed him imperiously.1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Methuen, →ISBN. From the entry waft
• But the mutating illegal drug supply is regularly conjuring new drugs with novel sets of potentially deadly risks.2025 December 22, Mattha Busby, “‘It’s made things worse for everyone’: Philadelphia grapples with rise of new street drug. Medetomidine…. From the entry medetomidine
• The proliferation of e-sports conjures images of children eating sugary snacks late into the night as they stare at their screens.2021 December 19, Joe Drape, “Step Aside, LeBron and Dak, and Make Room for Banjo and Kazooie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry e-sports
• The idea of the Anthropocene conjures notions of human omnipotence.2020 April 9, Richard Horton, “Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation”, in The Guardian. From the entry Anthropocene
• There are even acounts of seiðworkers conjuring storms, healing the sick, shapeshifting, and performing other acts best described as magical.2019, Ryan Smith, Way of Fire and Ice: The Living Tradition of Norse Paganism, unnumbered page. From the entry seiðworker
• Sadly, the ever-eager Reverend Judith had not been able to conjure up many worshippers, even though it was Father’s Day.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry faulty
• The process of 'gerundival attraction' is a sort of conjuring trick whereby a gerund is turned into a gerundive.2017, John Taylor, Latin Beyond GCSE, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry gerundival
• I pressed my palm to his chest and conjured my symbol, the mark which tied a Faelorehn life to my service.2016, Yasmine Galenorn, Once Upon A Curse: 17 Dark Faerie Tales, Fiddlehead Press, →ISBN. From the entry geis
• The word conjures winter holidays, office parties, stolen kisses, romance.2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25…. From the entry mistletoe
• Pynchon’s conjuring of millennial New York, it’s a total mishmash.2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in New York Times. From the entry mishmash
• The concepts of emotional intelligence (EI), self-worth, authenticity and employee meditation rooms might conjure up thoughts of new age healing centers.2011 November 9, Susanne Gargiulo, “Emotional intelligence in the workplace”, in CNN. From the entry emotional intelligence
• And in Melbourne, Australia, a woman known as Bali conjures up cozies for bike racks and bus stops.2011 May 19, Malia Wollan, “Creating Graffiti With Yarn”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry yarnstorm
• And so ends the story of July’s birth—a story that was more thrilling than anything the rascal spider Anancy could conjure.2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 13. From the entry anancy
• Vernon conjures thoughts of summertime from a distance.2009 January 18, Nate Chinen, “Sonic Adventures, From a Cappella to Zydeco”, in The New York Times. From the entry countryish
• Conjuring up images of Gene Hackman as the surveillance expert in Francis Ford Coppola ’s film “The Conversation,” Mr.2009 July 6, Randy Kennedy, “Sound Tunnel: Avant-Garde Park Portrait”, in New York Times. From the entry heartbeatlike
• The tea dress conjures up the quintessence of traditional Englishness.2009, Design Museum Enterprise Ltd., Fifty Dresses that Changed the World. From the entry tea dress
• The England thus, conjured up was a country which possessed not only beautiful spots but also place names which sounded beautiful'.2000, Amar Nath Prasad, Indian Novelists in English: Critical Perspectives, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry mytho-geography
• Think of someone called Larry and you automatically conjure up a guy drinking beer in a sixties rec room.1998, Carol Shields, Larry's Party, Penguin, →ISBN, page 254. From the entry larry
• Collectively they conjure up a crazed version of autodestructive white America at its most solipsistic, hankering after its own lost origins.1996 June 28, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Acid Western”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry autodestructive
• Conjure faces to go with these names: Edna and Joy.1990, Linda Barnes, Coyote, p.102. From the entry Edna
• The very mention of The Andrews Sisters is enough to conjure up visions of Mom and apple pie for most Americans.1985, Maxene: An Andrews Sister, New York, N.Y.: DRG Records Incorporated. From the entry mom and apple pie
• Without the use of his hands he couldn’t properly conjure.1984, Robert E[dward] Vardeman, Iron Tongue (Cenotaph Road; 4), New York, N.Y.: Ace Science Fiction Books, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry spiderlet
• Conjure more voices with thy telling bone.”1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 111. From the entry telling bone

Meaning of conjure

1. verb To perform magic tricks.
2. verb To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
3. verb To practice black magic.

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How do you use conjure in a sentence?

Conjure is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.”

What is a short sentence with conjure?

“Conjure more voices with thy telling bone.””

What does conjure mean?

Conjure means to perform magic tricks.