Example sentences for: conjures

How can you use “conjures” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Jonathan Lethem (the New York Times Book Review ) finds both ends of the spectrum in the book: "When he's at his best, Self's struggle with these opposed gifts conjures up fiction that alternately boggles, amuses and horrifies.

  • For Murakami's reader, it conjures up the excitement and terror, the white hots and the blue colds, of childhood treks through a storm sewer system.

  • He has spent his life as an "international civil servant," a phrase that conjures an image of someone wasting millions of U.S. dollars pushing paper around the Third World (which is basically what he did).

  • Cape dared suggest he travelled by train conjures up an image of Cape (“his” publisher) having the effrontery to put forward the theory that the absent “he” absconded by rail.

  • But today the trend is in the exact opposite direction from the one Sullivan conjures up.


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