How to Use conjure in a Sentence

conjure

verb

• The students conjured a clever scheme to raise the money they needed.
• Leave it to the British to conjure up some cheeky celebrity dirt.
  — Devon Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 17 Jan. 2018
• With two outs in the sixth, the Padres finally conjured a run.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2017
• Also: Just ask, and David will still conjure wines to match.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2020
• The rest of the team left, conjured the plan and returned a few hours later to make sure the home was secure.
  — Shandel Richardson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• What magic did Khloé have to conjure to get that IG name?
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 17 Apr. 2018
• The Nun 2 has conjured up a winner at the box office this weekend.
  — Vulture, 12 Sep. 2023
• Summer conjures vacations at the seashore, the cry of gulls, warm sand between the toes and evening fires on the beach.
  — Rich Heileman, cleveland, 18 Oct. 2019
• For some, a glazed donut conjures up images of tasty treats from Krispy Kreme or Dunkin’.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 3 Aug. 2023
• The cards are then spread on a round table where Wind will sit and conjure his mischief.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• But in this case, Putin has conjured up his own nemesis.
  — Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2023
• Although the name might conjure a place that's a little rough around the edges, don't be fooled—the food at Stinky's is top notch.
  — Coastal Living, Southern Living, 15 June 2023
• But it’s not a piece of cake to conjure up, and conditions matter.
  — Lisa Damour, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2020
• Now think about what that brand name conjures up today.
  — Matt Sebra, GQ, 7 Sep. 2017
• All of that was about building lasting bonds that words alone do not conjure up.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Your third-grade DIY volcano could not conjure up such feels.
  — Kristin Vartan, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• For most of us, the word probably doesn’t conjure up the sexiest thoughts.
  — Laurel Benedum, ELLE Decor, 21 Apr. 2020
• What links them is the way both artists conjure motion that is contained within the frame, so that the gestures pulse and coil.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• That’s the second backup in two weeks who conjured up a career-best game against USC.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• Weerasethakul’s goal in his work is to conjure up a world that closely resembles the scramble of time.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• My fellow guests conjured him and asked the eternal query: Who swung that hatchet?
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2019
• Missing out last year left the team wanting to conjure that same magic this year.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
• And while caves conjure up images of dark and gloomy spaces, this one is anything but.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2022
• The name Hemlock Neversink might conjure a wooded fairyland, and that idea isn’t too far from the truth.
  — Devorah Lev-Tov Zoey Poll Caitie Kelly Devorah Lev-Tov Elinor Hitt Jinnie Lee, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• For many people, art can conjure visions of times past.
  — Sadé Carpenter, RedEye Chicago, 15 Dec. 2017
• The look of this drink is supposed to conjure up the sun setting on the blue horizon, glimpsed over the quarterdeck railing.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 June 2023
• Folding as a way to bookmark pages, Zhang says, conjures the idea of origami.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2020
• Notes of musk and the forest in new gender-neutral scents conjure earthy warmth for autumn nights.
  — Meg Hemphill, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2019
• By the 2010s, the film conjured over two million viewers for primetime airings.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 13 Aug. 2023
• Knock any one of them over and the cascade that follows might lock a new memory in or conjure up an old one.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 15 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 5 May 2024