How to Use conjurer in a Sentence

conjurer

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  • On the other hand, the law is the conjurer of a delusion.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
  • His dog was more than a conjurer of great anecdotes, though.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The two writers took the long way home, stopping to talk with conjurers, tramps, convicts, and backwoods preachers all over the South.
    — Casey N. Cep, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
  • As these examples show, Smil is a conjurer with numbers.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Pictured here is her daughter, also named Marie, who also worked as a conjurer when her mother passed.
    — Scott Heller, New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • Boyd, an expert conjurer of worlds, writes with his customary energy and wit.
    — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • With a conjurer’s legerdemain, Swift slides Jack into the shadows and pushes Ronnie into the spotlight.
    — Malcolm Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • It has been suggested that as a conjurer of mental images, Mabuse was a sort of alter ego for the domineering director.
    — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 6 May 2020
  • The child of professors, Kwong swerved toward magic as a Harvard undergrad after attending a talk by the legendary conjurer Ricky Jay.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
  • There have long been traditions of older people who went to church and then went to see a conjurer or the Obeah man (people who know how to work spirits) and didn’t sit around and think ‘does this contradict Christianity?’ says Coleman.
    — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2022
  • In the spirit of the play's magical protagonist Prospero, Portland historical conjurer Danny Schreiber performs card, coin and fire tricks in the show.
    — Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 23 June 2017
  • Today, the good doctor, a six-time Grammy winner, is one of the most recognizable faces, and voices, of New Orleans, the conjurer of a musical mystique that continues to capture the imagination.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 5 May 2018
  • Faena sees himself not as a real estate developer but as a conjurer of utopias, and Tierra Santa is clearly his most personal creation.
    — Christopher Bagley, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2018
  • Evans developed a national reputation as a seafood conjurer at The Optimist in Atlanta.
    — Birmingham Magazine, al.com, 11 June 2019
  • The show emphasized Saar as a sort of political conjurer, endowing the everyday totems of subjugation with the vibrations of liberation.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2019

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