How to Use wizard in a Sentence

wizard

1 of 2 noun
  • He is a wizard at math.
  • Who were the ad wizards who came up with that one?
    Sean Gentille, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Drahi has been referred to as a wizard of debt.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Get ready for witches, munchkins and even the wizard.
    Stacey Zable, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • This wizard doesn’t even use a curtain.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Let the wizard do wizard things.
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Punk hit a rare shining wizard for a nearfall.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • My father was a very special man, a gems and pearls wizard and a true genius.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Only the best of the bat-to-ball wizards can build a career in the majors.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Smith appears to be a wizard, while Lillis seems to be a druid or a ranger.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 20 July 2022
  • Can your brain be trained to become a chart-predicting wizard?
    Dividend Channel, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • For more than two decades, Brzezinski has been known as a salary-cap wizard.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • And now Musk gets to be its wizard, promising to turn it into a free speech utopia.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2022
  • David Adelman is a wizard on the whiteboard.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Irving is a wizard at misdirections and spin moves to get to the rim.
    New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • Leavell is a wizard on the mat, but just as comfortable in front of a microphone.
    The Indianapolis Star, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Players are witch or wizard avatars that complete missions to gain skills such as flying on a broom.
    Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
  • As soon as the gear was readied, King donned his black, waterproof wizard’s robe.
    Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • With a precocious array of dips, spins and drop-steps, Şengün is a wizard on the low block.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 4 Nov. 2022
  • They’re not confronted with wizards.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Rafaela is a wizard in center field with the ability to also play shortstop.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • There are many mobile apps that promise to turn you into a budgeting wizard.
    Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • But the wizard's whole schtick is that everyone can be worthy of such power if given the chance.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022
  • The next step is going through an introductory wizard with a quick start guide.
    PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
  • No multi-screen wizard, no preference panes.
    Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • The idea of some ad wizard at the top deciding that Demi is going to do rock now is so not true.
    Suzy Expositostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • So, what did Mad Max and his fellow watchmaking wizard come up with?
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 10 June 2022
  • Don’t look too closely behind the curtain because the wizard isn’t a wizard at all.
    Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Bring your wizard, wands and have a spooktacular time with family and friends!
    Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Mark Helfrich was an offensive wizard, but didn’t have the same killer instinct.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022

wizard

2 of 2 adjective
  • Let the wizard do wizard things.
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • So is wizard-like offensive play-calling.
    Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Roger Dubuis dropped a timepiece in September that is fit for a king—or wizard, rather.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Dark Towers, crooked wizard towers, towers with damsels in distress.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Finishing Forgetting my robe and wizard cap.
    Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
  • For higher-tier users, however, sending out a campaign follows a logical wizard flow.
    Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • The little wizard Orko pops up to explain that just having muscles doesn’t always win the day and the guy with the skull for a face is usually a bad guy.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 June 2026
  • The wand, which is made of milk chocolate and has wood-like details with the same look as Harry’s weapon, also comes with a wizard spell sheet so fans can teach themselves magic.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 1 May 2026
  • But what was more notable was that the sandwich shop had a portal to a wizard's lair, which is where the Russo kids trained to become the only standing wizard family.
    Christian Holub, Entertainment Weekly, 21 June 2026
  • During the events of the season 1 finale, Justin's mortal sons Roman and Milo gained wizard powers.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Once the quartet finally arrives in Tijuana, a wizard-like smuggler arranges their death-defying crossing.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Not even Holly can stand Derek, and Holly seems pretty chill, aside from being so easily tricked by an evil wizard monster and blindly trusting a man no one else can see.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
  • War looms, and a group of misfit heroes with problems of their own — like the influence of an eldritch ocean leviathan, a would-be wizard assassin, and a chaos-loving god who is missing in action — might be the only thing that can save the realm.
    James Grebey, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2025
  • In late May 2018, Davidson made their relationship Instagram official by posting a photo of him and Grande posing in Harry Potter wizard robes.
    Nicole Sands, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • Never mind that the 68-year-old actor, who played the rebellious, impulsive wizard Sirius Black in the Harry Potter film franchise, couldn’t tell you the difference between a Hufflepuff and, say, a Gryffindor.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
  • Their first book, Manacled, took place in an alternate Harry Potter universe where The Boy Who Lived actually died and evil wizard Voldermort triumphed, according to the Times.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 11 Sep. 2025
  • Michael Byrne, the British character actor and stage veteran who played a Nazi in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the wizard Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, died June 20, The Guardian reported.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026

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