Example sentences for: conjures

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

  • It conjures up the picture of someone boning up on his “word for the day’ just before attending a cocktail party and then awkwardly trying to steer the conversation in such a way that he can insert a word like paradigm, paragon , or parameter .

  • The left conjures up a heartland full of racists, misogynists, and religious maniacs.

  • For millions of would-be travelers around the world, the very name Kyoto conjures up images of the exotic and the foreign.

  • 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.

  • And with details like that, García Márquez's narrative of the kidnapping, the sequestering of the victims in their different safe houses, the efforts by the husband of one of the victims to get the president of Colombia sympathetically involved, the drawn-out negotiations, the months of incarceration, a killing, then another, the intervention of a half-mad television priest, the release of the survivors and, at last, the surrender of Escobar himself--this tale, like a tropical downpour, conjures up a brilliant leafy-green Latin Americanness.


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