How to Use sorcerer in a Sentence

sorcerer

noun
  • The sorcerer is a superhero that might not have the same reach with fans as the God of Thunder does.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Jareth made for a most enchanting sorcerer, with a shock of blond hair and some out-of-this-world pipes.
    Marc Bernardin, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
  • He's been a steamboat captain, a sorcerer, a ghost hunter, a band leader, a movie star, and more.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 June 2024
  • So, sadly no answer has been set in the sorcerer’s stone.
    Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The dance was once performed by the Zogo Le, the powerful sorcerer of the village.
    Aaron Smith, CNN, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The movie starred Davis as a sorcerer determined to save the life of a child — Elora Danan — being hunted by a queen.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Just like that, the sorcerer would make the Mad Titan forget everything and avoid the carnage.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 4 Jan. 2022
  • He felt harassed by the taunts of jealous friends back home, taunts transmitted by a marabout, a seer or sorcerer.
    Julian Baggini, WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • The sorcerer wants to capture the non-MCU villains and send them back to their realities.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The coach who returned to Ann Arbor with the reputation as a sorcerer of X’s-and-O’s seemed at a loss for answers.
    Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The classic story, set to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s score, tells of a cursed princess whose romance with a prince is torn apart by an evil sorcerer.
    oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Russo said the hardest character to write was the main antagonist of the movie and the series, the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung.
    Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
  • From stars and birds to goblets and sorcerers, pips bore symbolic meaning, much like the trump cards of older tarot decks.
    Adrienne Bernhard, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Prince Siegfried falls in love with her, but the sorcerer enchants his daughter Odile to look like Odette and then tricks the prince into betraying his love.
    Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Hong got to show off his comedy chops as David Lo Pan, a sorcerer who must marry a green-eyed Earthling to break an evil curse.
    Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Willow starred Davis as a sorcerer determined to save the life of a child — Elora Danan — who is being hunted by a queen.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Gone-too-soon guitar-sorcerer Duane Allman’s last concert ever, for the first time on vinyl.
    Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 9 June 2021
  • Odette is a shape-shifter, from woman to swan, under sorcerer Rothbart’s spell, only to be broken when a swain pledges true love to her—Siegfried to the rescue.
    Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Merlin is a great sorcerer who has a dark secret that prevents him from wanting to use his magic.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 22 July 2020
  • In classic role-playing style, players can traverse this landscape as a sword wielder, a sorcerer, an archer, and the like.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Sometimes a writer comes along who seems to float above language and direct it like a sorcerer, raising up whole worlds then sliding them out of the way.
    Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Now their sorcerer was in custody, and his talismans were broken and burned.
    Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2023
  • With the help of his magical Power Sword, the hero is tasked with defending his home planet from the evil sorcerer Skeletor.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
  • But on a dreamlike getaway, the prince meets Odette, a princess who has been transformed into a swan by the powerful sorcerer Rothbart.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2024
  • For the people of Haiti, the zombi was one who had died and been buried, only to be malignantly revived and enslaved by a sorcerer, or bokor.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
  • Davis will return to his role as the kind-hearted Willow, who is now a noted sorcerer, in a story set decades after the event of the original movie.
    Jennifer M. Wood, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Four acts of romance, tragedy and magic portray the tale of Odette, the beautiful Swan Queen who is imprisoned under the spell of an evil sorcerer.
    Marcia Manna, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • What’s more, the sorcerer has done it with no McDonald’s all-Americans.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The other ace in the hole here is the cocktail program by Bachman, a sorcerer with rare and obscure ingredients.
    Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The Book of the Vishanti is a powerful resource for any sorcerer looking to combat the Darkhold.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Feb. 2022

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