Example sentences for: conjures

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

  • Confidential conjures up those racy old Avon or Pocket Books pulp covers--film noir but with colors that are lurid and deep--and comments on them, too.

  • With its featherweight premise, casually amoral heroes, and exotic locales, it conjures up an era (the '60s and '70s) when twisty, romantic heist pictures were routinely ground out as tax shelters--and sometimes cast with the producers' model girlfriends, so that expensive vacations could be written off, too.

  • 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.

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

  • 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).


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