Example sentences for: conjures

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

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

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


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