How To Use Conjure In A Sentence

Representing France, Jean-Marc Bustamante conjures a ‘Pavilion of the Amazons,’ which centers on four large color photographs of solitary, unsmiling young women standing in resolutely unpicturesque landscapes.
With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
And the images you conjure with "straddling glowing globes and caressing the giant W" makes us sound so freakin 'horny ... oh wait ... nevermind. Blogger Bender - Part II
Later presidents tried to revive it to conjure up domestic support for their beleaguered policies.
Harvard-educated Internet entrepreneur and cosmopolite Alex Vik and his wife, Carrie, set out to conjure up a comprehensive personal vision here that involves ranch life, sports, and luxury; a genuine sense of place; and a reach for something universal. Off the Beaten Track

To say the word god in American public discourse is to conjure up a number of images and ideas that serve to undermine democracy in name of religious freedom. Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou: 'Gods, Gays and Guns' (EXCERPT)
Kristen would run out to get a blood test while I watched an online tutorial; she would pop Clomid while I conjured up the courage to give myself a shot. Times Two
It conjures an image of those of us who find winning too hard to swallow. Times, Sunday Times
Why not let a piece of fine British craftsmanship become the magic lamp that conjures up memories of this jubilee? Times, Sunday Times
He knows where the work's heart lies and how to conjure its spell from the music 's limpid simplicity and antiquarian turns of phrase. Times, Sunday Times
Few human pursuits can conjure up such overblown expectations, fanned by holiday brochure photo-spreads showing impossibly white beaches domed by suspiciously azure skies.
Different names conjure up different images. Times, Sunday Times
With the help of his faithful spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures up a great storm causing a shipwreck on the shore nearby.
From the opening notes of the Allegro vivace assai, the Berlin players conjured up Mozart in the best Viennese manner.
This conjures up images of an industry filled with diehard fans and former players. Times, Sunday Times
The audio is sure to give the venue's newly upgraded sound system a thorough breaking-in, while the images transport with a hypnogogic flow of abstract patterns conjured through digital manipulations of a dozen shots of what looks like crumpled aluminum foil. Sad Sacks and Barrels of Laughs
Will tried to conjure up their blissful months together but before long he spiralled back down again. Times, Sunday Times
Conjure up a bucket-load of goals? The Sun
Just the name ‘Magic Boy’ conjures up images of a powerful young sorcerer who can raise the dead and rain hellfire down on his enemies.
All quotes, except those cited by link, consist entirely of hearsay, malefactions, and poorly-conjured misrepresentations.
It conjures up an image like that in the novel Brave New World, where everyone is doped up, rather than having their real problems dealt with.
Whatever mojo Campbell had conjured up previously, his methods were now clearly failing.
To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless.
Hearing those involved talk about the 1982 conflict conjures up images more vivid than any photograph. Times, Sunday Times
By these means the notion of my partiality took air, and whether Miss Thrale sent him word slily or not I cannot tell, but on the 25th January, 1783, Mr. Crutchley came hither to conjure me not to go to Italy; he had heard such things, he said, and by _means_ next to _miraculous_. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
Now I'm all for anything that celebrates blatant carnivorism, and I'd love to see PETA's apoplectic reaction, but come on: I've been inside a Burger King and while the amalgam of scent that assaults your nose may not be quite as revolting as the aforementioned love sweat of the Mongolian Cud-Spitting Yak, it certainly doesn't conjure up images of sweet lovin 'on a plush rug in front of a roaring fire. Scent of Love
Varied mythical figures have been conjured up as saviours of a people in decline or bondage.
Thirteen years ago she found herself having to conjure a career from thin air.
'O Vierge! je te conjure par la vertu du Dieu tout-puissant, par des neuf chœurs des anges, par la vertu gosdrienne, amène moi icelle fille, en chair et en os, afin que _je la saboule_ à mon plaisir.' Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
This piece serves as a substantial conjurer of what we might term the castrati-c imagination through its vivid representation of the materiality of sound as music, and one that locates this sound visually in a manner that does not oppose it to its evanescence, its temporality. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
It conjures an image of those of us who find winning too hard to swallow. Times, Sunday Times
For many people it conjures up visions of log cabins, country farmhouses and Shaker style kitchens.
The artists responsible for the works and for dimming lights, Stanikas, conjure up the ghosts of Lithuanian and Soviet past and of the difficult transition.
She conjures up the spirits of the dead, putting the truth in front of them.
Mrs. Cook assured him, the conjurer was a good Christian; and that he gained all his knowledge by conversing with the stars and planets. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
By contrast, the ranks of subjects whom Andy represented, like himself, occluded and determinedly not smiling, is equally revealing, as if to conjure not so much by passive aggression as by vaguely sexualized sullenness, even vacancy, the dominant mood of international fame in the 1970s and early to mid-1980s. Archive 2009-01-01
Those of a delicate conscience may be offended by the movie, but the images it conjures in the mind are more disturbing than those depicted on screen.
When I conjure in my mind the objections that people I know make to Christianity, I am reminded of my friend on the couch, enervated by life's manifold demands.
The FA Cup still has its magic but a wand needed to be waved to conjure it up. The Sun
The elegant sloping roofline conjures a sleek, lightweight look as we follow it towards the rear hatch.
After that comment, sure enough her sister conjured up the same lecture about swearing to Blair, Blair was just a bit put down when she couldn't walk away from this incessant jabber of her sister's idea on etiquette.
Despite the figurative grotesquerie, which is more nuisance than threat, it is a painting of nothing — no thing as such but atmosphere — a moody, indeterminate matter expressive of an interior mental state conjured through paint and paint alone. Ensor Unmasked
A walk in the fresh air soon conjured her headache away.
The mere mention of the words "heart failure", can conjure up, to the layman, the prospect of imminent death.
A walk in the fresh air soon conjured her headache away.
Used his wand of a left foot to conjure up three points. The Sun
Instead, the words conjure up unpleasant memories of mom's experimental eggplant lasagna and certain rubber-like meat substitutes.
The harsh ascetic, however, is the one the word ascetic most generally conjures up. Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
Could the elder of the finalists conjure yet more magic? Times, Sunday Times
He conjured up a vision of this strange forgotten kink in the world's littoral, of the long meandering channels that spread and divaricate and spend their burden of mud and silt within the thunderbelt of Atlantic surf, of the dense tangled vegetation that creeps into the shimmering water with root and sucker. Tono Bungay
With rampant racism throughout both the government and the military, McIlwain endured hate and abuse that most Americans couldn't conjure in a nightmare as he embarked on a personal journey of courage and determination, becoming one of the country's first black fighter pilots - one of the famed Tuskegee Heroes or Villains?
The old man conjured up a bag of silver coins from his pocket.
TO the books of the monastery some human interest clings: we can at once conjure up a picture of the cloister and the scribe at his work; the handling of an old manuscript, the turning over of finely-written and quaintly-illuminated yellow pages, throws the mind flashing back centuries to the silent writer in his carrell. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
They look as if you have something to hide, and the imagination always conjures up something worse than the reality. Times, Sunday Times
They are, in the most fundamental sense, magical: they weave spells, they conjure something out of nothing.
However, her pictures are not about the romantic images that these conjure up, but focus on the world they transport the viewer too.
Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless cottage cheese salads.
Before you conjure the mailbag down to the Post Office for us," Beryl (or maybe Yolande) added. THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
Do film-makers just make use of the kookaburra to conjure up exotic tropical atmosphere - or are there birds with similar calls?
For me ‘the strong, silent type’ conjures up images of slit-eyed Clint Eastwood, mumbling a few well chosen syllables before dispatching some low-life to oblivion with his enormous gun.
The very word partner conjures up a similar sharing of the risks and a shared passion about the business.
But now that we're all plugged into the Matrix, will we basically conjure up a "dreamworld" that feels very much like the "real world? Archive 2007-11-01
Now mention a trip to Cyprus to a young footballer and immediately certain images are conjured in their minds.
Thanks to security breaches both in the U.S. and abroad, it's become a word that conjures much angstier feelings. by Sam Adams The Clog
A creative magus, he conjures the illusion of a surface, and just as quickly makes it disappear.
He is scruffy, self-effacing and funny and conjures up all of these attributes in his perennially popular excursions to far-flung corners of the globe.
She's very good at magic; she can conjure a rabbit out of a hat.
Three goal scoring chances were conjured up by Swindon, only to be magicked away by Leicester.
And because you are doubting you begin to conjure up images of disaster and failure. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
The soaring purity of her voice conjured up the frozen bleakness of the Far North.
The magician conjured a bowl of fish out of his hat.
The restaurant had worked hard to conjure up vivid images of Thailand in every detail from the artwork and carvings adorning the green and maroon walls to the incense wafting through the air.
Conjure up the cottage you imagined hansel and gretle finding in the woods. I-claudius Diary Entry
The lurid image this conjures up is at odds with the reality. The Times Literary Supplement
This was a false assumption; Jone was well-versed in the holy scriptures, and it was whispered that he had the ability to conjure up eidolons and spirits.
The figure of £23 billion has not been conjured out of the blue.
Our cook Rona somehow conjures up gourmet meals from a galley no bigger than a telephone box.
In modern parlance this word quickly conjures up notions of government regulation and regulated industries.
I had lost my pen, but she conjured up another one for me from somewhere.
He doesn't like the term concierge care, which he said conjures images of pricey institutions, such as the Ritz-Carlton. News & Record Article Feed
With a sudden change of manner, his visitant conjured him, in voluble and impetuous terms, to comply. Ferdinando Eboli
In an instant, the magician had conjured a white dove from his hat.
Yorkston apologises profusely for only playing six songs, but while the set seems a little truncated, he still manages to conjure up some moments of real magic.
The term "garage rock" conjures images of loud, forceful music, often with heavy distortion, thudding kick drums and hollered vocals. NPR Topics: News
These abominations should never have been born -- born, synthesized, stitched together, alchemically confected, necromantically conjured, however they'd come into the world. Interview: James Morrow on 'Shambling Towards Hiroshima'
In the decemviral code the extreme penalty is attached to the crime of witchcraft or conjuration: 'Let him be capitally punished who shall have bewitched the fruits of the earth, or by either kind of conjuration (_excantando neque incantando_) shall have conjured away his neighbour's corn into his own field,' &c., an enactment sneered at in Justinian's _Institutes_ in Seneca's words. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
It's a sobriquet that conjures up visions of rich but not-very-fit middle-aged men hauling on very large fishing rods and imagining they're Ernest Hemingway, the ultimate he-man.
It will certainly become one today if Britain cannot conjure a doubles victory. Times, Sunday Times
One of his strategies is to test whether a word can conjure up a complex idea.
Movies are magic because they conjure powerful emotions from light, forms, sound, and play-acting.
It will take a masterly spin doctor to conjure upbeat images from a bleak Kansas youth.
Internationally the term suburb conjures up images of a quiet, relatively unspoilt, less densely populated and predominantly residential community in the vicinity of a city. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
I can't simply conjure up the money out of thin air.
Sophisticated slapstick is difficult to achieve, and this is one of the finest success stories I can conjure. December « 2009 « Precocious Curmudgeon
The conjurer took a kitchen knife, pushed it slowly through the red hatbox. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
And now the night conjured up from the waters a gluey fog.
Bovell and his band conjured up an atmosphere of potent menace and seething sensuality.
The music has a cinematic quality which conjures up images of film noir classics.
While for some, video games conjure up the image of the socially withdrawn and uncommunicative male, the milieu of video games is intensely social.
The mention of Bavaria may still conjure up images of rowdy beer halls, oompah bands and red-cheeked folk in dirndl and lederhosen, but the state capital, Munich, is revamping itself as Germany's answer to silicon valley. How Bavaria became a European silicon valley
La Movida first showed the world that Spain — which now conjures up images of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, Pedro Almod ó var's melodramas and Ferran Adri à 's foams — could mean more than castanets, bull fights and suntan lotion. In Madrid, the Party Goes On, Austero Style
The cymbalom, not a particularly well-known instrument in the United States, conjures up the mystery and romance of eastern Europe.
I conjured up thoughts of a giant steaming bowl of chili, my favorite snickerdoodle cookies hot from the oven, and a huge scalding pot of Mimo's contraband New Guinea peaberry coffee. Perseus Spur
The magician conjured a rabbit out of his hat.
The very term conjures a closed chapter - if a heroic one - in the history of art.
David conjured an endless succession of rabbits out of his hat.
Be on your guard, I conjure you.
The industry does not have all the answers and we cannot wave a magic wand to conjure up a solution overnight. Times, Sunday Times
In that, he is the true heir to Yves Saint Laurent, who could conjure up surrealism without looking a fool.
Taking the mickey out of modern dance, they conjure up moves by all the greats, starting with Isadora Duncan swanning around the Louvre and ending in a symphony of blue.
But, of course, no one would have minded a bit if England had somehow conjured a couple of second-half goals to steal victory.
Viewed in this way, the Fogg portrait conjures up all the polyvalent meanings of the phrase ‘painting as a woman.’
Whenever he closed his eyes, his mind conjured up a picture of the grim witch-doctoress, so strangely named the Bee, and the sound of her evil-omened words as he had heard them that afternoon. Black Heart and White Heart
Amid the rambling dialogue and semi-lucid metaphors we become privy to a sense of the director's desperation to conjure up some kind of meaning.
Called Sigh No More, the most dread spectre it conjures up is that the 1990s "crusties" are back. Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
But the bread oven conjures up delicious smells of baking and a homely warmth, missing in most modern homes.
I was not convinced that this was what was going to happen, but I couldn't put my finger on precisely why; my instinct was that some mechanism would be conjured up to allow the government to continue to hold these people.
The brilliant camera work sympathetically follows him from street corners where he shares a dazed smoke with a couple of wrinkled vagrants to a silent pond where his exhausted mind conjures up startling hallucinations.
Remarkably, if they could conjure a win, they would then have managed to take more points off Celtic than the rest of the SPL clubs put together.
They were meant to conjure the presence of a divinely appointed monarch and subjects were expected to treat them according respect. Times, Sunday Times
Some of his set pieces can conjure a more vivid image in the mind's eye than the surviving works of art themselves.
After all, it's the very industry that gave us the concept of ‘quick and dirty’ - you know, solutions conjured up in a jiffy to meet the pressing needs of customers.
Its sails filled with a Mage-conjured breeze, belling out like great white wings, carrying its crew away from Armethalieh and out to freedom. Tran Siberian
A mental snapshot of him conjures not a face but a ribbon of pipe smoke emanating from behind an open volume, an omnipresent red pen poised in midair for the next margin note. 2009 December 09 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
But in that sleepy disarray, I had conjured up something else. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
Does the idea of touring conjure up exciting images of places to see and new foods and adventures to experience in foreign lands?
Times_ will be taken at the next performance of _Parsifal_ by Mr. WATERER, the great floricultural expert, and Mr. DEVANT, the eminent conjurer, with Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914
His very funny joke soon conjured my anger away.
Her warm contralto conjured memories of adventures long past…
Missing two fingers, probably due to frostbite, the image conjures the feel of his ghostly presence. FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
It is the business of a novelist to conjure up into existence the world of imagination.
Indeed, it is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power, can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions, to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of the dungeon. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
Move past the hot foods, and find a deli stocked not only with your basic hams, salamis, and turkey breast, but also with the most exotic and obscure French, Italian, and German meats a shopper can conjure.
At first I thought Steve had conjured up the entire brouhaha to drum up publicity, but no.
We can conjure them away only by observing things under conditions in which the cues to three-dimensional perception are inoperative.
So saying, he hent in hand a stick 190 and flourishing it thrice in the air, was about to come down with it upon the lame ape, when the creature cried out for mercy and said to him, I conjure thee, by The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Some comments really do conjure hybrid cities and mixed realities.
Stage magicians and conjurers are of course illusionists, not magicians in the historical context of the word.
They have that whisper and waving of secresy in secret scenery; they beckon to the bath; and they conjure classic visions of the pudency of the Goddess irate or unsighted. Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2
When people think of building demolition, they almost invariably conjure up visions of spectacular implosions with large buildings collapsing in seconds.
I'm trying to conjure up the good-fairy presence, trying to get her to pay attention to me.
The acoustic guitar is the closest thing to a fetish object in music: put one in the right hands, and that person can conjure the dead.
As Osa dancers perform a stick dance meant to conjure up the spirits of their ancestors, organizers say the festive season is not a denouncement of Western Christian values.
The story also conjures up several anecdotes that will be appreciated by Brit-pop aficionados.
This was a false assumption; he was well-versed in the holy scriptures, and it was whispered that he had the ability to conjure up eidolons and spirits.
They were meant to conjure the presence of a divinely appointed monarch and subjects were expected to treat them according respect. Times, Sunday Times
Snow White is a classic tale, one that conjures up wonderful images of mythical creatures.
To always say more than it intends, to conjure up possibilities that set us off on internal flights of fancy, to gesture beyond itself in myriad ways and to tantalize with the shadows of other stories, hiding in the corners of the most realistic of narratives. Reading Workshop I « Tales from the Reading Room
And on this ship was a magician, a conjurer, whose function was to entertain the passengers.
Varied mythical figures have been conjured up as saviours of a people in decline or bondage.
Back in Croton the word picnic conjured images of soggy PB&Js and Minute Maid fruit punch juice boxes. Paradise Lost
In my literalistic mind, this question conjures up the image of a mime wrestling to carry two enormous, invisible burdens, each one by itself almost too large to grip securely.
Walking over it immediately conjures up images of Greg Wise in breeches; enough to keep me smiling for the rest of the day. The concrete jungle's really going crazy
I hope he doesn't destroy the magic conjured at the Almeida. Times, Sunday Times
Socialist poetry: two words to conjure images of earnest but artless efforts by would-be Woody Guthries.
There are hints of free-flowing jazz drumming, while a frenetic shamisen sequence conjures up the gritty majesty of the blues. Times, Sunday Times
To succeed as art, sci-fi and fantasy have to persuade us to suspend our disbelief in the world being conjured up.
I had lost my pen, but she conjured up another one for me from somewhere.
The word conjured up images of the Spanish Inquisition, of torture, the whip and the rack. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
With the benefit of clear thinking the men on the field and the mentors on the line conjured, then executed, an unlikely escape plan.
But he does not conjure their ghosts simply to condemn them again; he has a new take.
The phrase conjured up the image of a hive of busy accountants in green eyeshades, scouring the tax code for hidden exemptions.
conjurers are experts at misdirection
How am I expected to conjure up a meal for six of his friends with almost nothing in the fridge?
The smell conjured up terrible, dog-like images of danger and violence, and the hackles on the tomcat's neck stood at attention.
They take pleasure in tall ceilings, which conjure images of banquets and feasting, and waiters with aprons wrapped around their bellies.
Thanks to security breaches both in the U.S. and abroad, it's become a word that conjures much angstier feelings. The Clog
Do you see yourself/the publisher as a magician, a conjurer?
The mere mention of the words "heart failure", can conjure up, to the layman, the prospect of imminent death.
Hearing those involved talk about the 1982 conflict conjures up images more vivid than any photograph. Times, Sunday Times
Like the Latin word "limina" it describes a threshold - we can't go back and we may not want to go ahead - and it conjures the anxiety that we experience in those moments that require us to intentionally leave our comfort zones behind. NextReformation
His very funny joke soon conjured my anger away.
When his mind chose to conjure up images, it presented every possible situation he could ever hate.
When you say design, some folks conjure up images of la-di-da characters with long silk scarves flurrying about pointing out how atrocious or marvelous everything looks.
No missish sentiment, no modesty was strong enough to distract her from the sensuous delight of his fingers, the strength of his hands, the pleasure they conjured. The Perfect Lover
The mysterious concatenations variously conjure Cycladic totems and Greek herms as well as works by Picasso and Ernst.
Likewise in the poem, the author conjures up the image of a "common motherland", and once again mourns the mutilation of rural Punjab.
On the track the team have again failed to conjure notable results, were tainted by Piquet Jr's attack on Briatore when he was axed - describing him as his "executioner" - and then hit the headlines again in Hungary when Alonso's tyre fell off, resulting in a one-race ban that was overturned on appeal. Planet F1 | Formula 1 News
The semi-conscious bride and the manipulative groom pulling up to a Las Vegas wedding chapel drive-in did not conjure up images of a fairy tale romance.
For most, the term potted meat conjures up images of mystery meat in a can, but traditionally potted meat was made at home from meat scraps, herbs, spices and maybe an acid or a spirit, such as vinegar or brandy. Make it at home | Homesick Texan
He conjured up a whole meal in a jiffy.
Carlo Boccadoro's Ritratto di musico conjured the perpetual motion of the fifth, with lubricious brass slides and busy timpani work. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Chailly; Castor and Pollux– review
He conjured them with his dying breath to look after his children.
How many picture can we conjure up of a helmeted Tomlinson, dark glass and all, "pouting" on the sideline? Pats Pulpit
Clara said the last word with as much spite and disgust as she could conjure.
I can't simply conjure up the money out of thin air.
The lurid image this conjures up is at odds with the reality. The Times Literary Supplement
The Queen, missing of the men, was very curious to learn the truth, but at last it was whispered out; she sware by God's death, it was fit that some one or other should take him down and teach him better manners, otherwise there would be no rule with him; and here I note the imminution of my lord's friendship with Mountjoy, which the Queen herself did then conjure. FRAGMENTA REGALIA
The excuse - and make no mistake, this is what it is - that has been conjured up is that we have witnessed the death of ideology.
By the ministry of a faithful eunuch she transmitted to him a ring, the pledge of her affection, and earnestly conjured him to claim her as a lawful spouse to whom he had been secretly betrothed.
Several other principal Chiefs of the Campbells, with one voice, conjured and obtested their Chieftain to leave them for that day to the leading of Ardenvohr and Auchenbreck, and to behold the conflict from a distance and in safety. A Legend of Montrose
This is a particularly apt description, which conjures up the image of a radio whose reception is disrupted by some outside source of interference.
She's conjured up enchanting white raincoats, and using antique looms has reworked old cashmere cardigans.
If by any chance this paper should be still undestroyed and should fall into your hands, I conjure you, by all you hold sacred, to hurl it into the fire.
A commenter by the name of Ettamere writes: The term 'gastropub' has always conjured up in me an image of a nasty intestinal complaint/procedure. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Shifting away from the dim hopes of my rescue, I conjure up a series of bright memories that bring me a tidal change of emotion.
The forthcoming civil disobedience will be non-violent, organisers stress, but the whiff of brutalism conjures up a world where no such caveat is feasible.
Hearing those two words when you don't have one conjures up an A. R. Gurney-approved environment of rectangular symmetry with mahogany veneer, a chandelier above, an Aubusson below, and a breakfront filled with Spode on the side.
The thought of coral reefs conjures images of brightly coloured shoals and huge schools of exotic fish.

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