How to Use conjurer in a Sentence

conjurer

noun
  • One of the greatest of those conjurers is now gone.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Shaun Grant’s script pulls off this trick with the smooth elan of a conjurer.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Their conjurers, who refuse to accept the rules of the real world, can also be great fun to read about.
    — Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Why are conjurers of the imaginary being quizzed about the essence of the real, or even the meaning of life?
    — Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, The Dial, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Boyd, an expert conjurer of worlds, writes with his customary energy and wit.
    — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Pictured here is her daughter, also named Marie, who also worked as a conjurer when her mother passed.
    — Scott Heller, New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • The two writers took the long way home, stopping to talk with conjurers, tramps, convicts, and backwoods preachers all over the South.
    — Casey N. Cep, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
  • But Pochettino is not just a conjurer of other people’s emotions.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Just as a conjurer saws a lady in half, the movie keeps dividing its characters and relationships.
    — Kirk Honeycutt, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • And one of its greatest conjurers of these mysteries is Isabelle Huppert.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
  • But when two strangers arrive, the once-invincible conjurer’s powers weaken, leaving the town in danger.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
  • There’s a fact of Connecticut life that the allocation conjurers ignored.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2025
  • It has been suggested that as a conjurer of mental images, Mabuse was a sort of alter ego for the domineering director.
    — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 6 May 2020
  • As the conjurer of the neighborhood’s existence, Buckler was the Wizard of Oz.
    — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The local doctor was really just a helpless conjurer, while the lazy village priest got endowed with unwarranted godlike powers.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • With a conjurer’s legerdemain, Swift slides Jack into the shadows and pushes Ronnie into the spotlight.
    — Malcolm Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Smoke reconnects, in one of the film’s most lusty moments (there are quite a few), with Annie (Wunmi Mosaku), an old flame who’s also a Hoodoo conjurer.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Today, conjurers are not exclusively women.
    — Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Faena sees himself not as a real estate developer but as a conjurer of utopias, and Tierra Santa is clearly his most personal creation.
    — Christopher Bagley, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2018
  • Annie is the community’s spiritual leader, a Hoodoo conjurer, herbalist and healer.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Evans developed a national reputation as a seafood conjurer at The Optimist in Atlanta.
    — Birmingham Magazine, al.com, 11 June 2019
  • The child of professors, Kwong swerved toward magic as a Harvard undergrad after attending a talk by the legendary conjurer Ricky Jay.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Supporting the lead characters is Annie (Mosaku), Smoke’s true love and the town’s trusted spiritual healer and Hoodoo conjurer.
    — Robert Lang, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The show emphasized Saar as a sort of political conjurer, endowing the everyday totems of subjugation with the vibrations of liberation.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2019
  • There was a collective inhale as Kyle Abraham—founder, Artistic Director, conjurer—took the stage for a solo that reminded us why his company carries his name.
    — Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In the spirit of the play's magical protagonist Prospero, Portland historical conjurer Danny Schreiber performs card, coin and fire tricks in the show.
    — Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 23 June 2017
  • Today, the good doctor, a six-time Grammy winner, is one of the most recognizable faces, and voices, of New Orleans, the conjurer of a musical mystique that continues to capture the imagination.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 5 May 2018

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