How to Use conjurer in a Sentence

conjurer

noun
  • 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 the conjurer of the neighborhood’s existence, Buckler was the Wizard of Oz.
    Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • 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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