How to Use mentalist in a Sentence

mentalist

noun
  • In every case, the word the woman thought of matched the one the mentalist had written down.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Next, each woman sat down with Zach one at a time as the mentalist gave them readings.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Such extraction is, of course, the raison d’être of a mentalist’s art.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 16 May 2017
  • Major, who grew up in Woodbine, makes his living as a mentalist and mind reader.
    — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Kimmel said that mentalist Pearlman will be a guest on his show Monday night.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Read Your Mind draws on Pearlman’s years as a mentalist to help readers find success in their own lives.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
  • There are motorcycles and fascist youths and a stage mentalist who teams up with Hicks for a while; there’s a thread about a cheese magnate.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
  • West even had a mentalist there to charm the guests with a few tricks, and lattes and cookies with his own face on them (and an assortment of hairstyles to choose from).
    — Emma Stefansky, Vanities, 10 June 2018
  • Even a mentalist like Pearlman, after all, can’t make people forget what transpired.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Apr. 2026
  • There, his deceit takes a new form as a phony mentalist, but his lies soon catch up to him in a stunningly dramatic conclusion.
    — Eric Farwell, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Your synapses will be safe again when the British mentalist Derren Brown hangs up his tailcoat and blindfold.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 22 June 2017
  • Your synapses will be safe once again when the British mentalist Derren Brown hangs up his tailcoat and blindfold.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 June 2017
  • Plans for 2026 call for a demonstration by a mentalist instead of a comic’s routine.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Rodney Reyes is a magician and mentalist who performs throughout the country.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 June 2022
  • Stan then moves to the city and becomes a nightclub mentalist, encountering more deceptive people.
    — Tim Gray, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The tricks that mentalists perform, including mind-reading, don't really vary that much from performer to performer.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Still, the shooter didn’t stop the mentalist and his wife and manager, Elisa, from attending an after-party.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Apr. 2026
  • For mentalists everywhere, that's the magic question.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 23 Apr. 2026
  • What to expect A pre-show lounge will open the event with signature cocktails and sleight-of-hand magicians and mentalists mingling through the crowd.
    — Charlotte Observer, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Derren Brown is a mentalist, illusionist, pop philosopher and debunker of scam-artists and mediums.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • The magician and mentalist is known for such feats of endurance as burying himself alive for seven days and holding his breath for more than 17 minutes.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Oz Pearlman, a mentalist and the entertainer for the night, seemed to be doing a trick for the president and the first lady when the shots were fired, videos show.
    — Ana Ceballos follow, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Instead, mentalist Oz Pearlman will perform.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Newsom poses for a photo with Oz Pearlman, the mentalist booked to perform at tomorrow's dinner.
    — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Stan is eager to learn their secrets, which reside in a book of spoken cues that clue a mentalist into what objects audience members are holding, what is engraved on them or other details.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Stan is eager to learn their secrets, which reside in a book of spoken cues that clue a mentalist into what objects audience members are holding, what is engraved on them or other details.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
  • In December, word came that a frequent talk show guest, the mentalist The Amazing Kreskin, 89, had passed away.
    — David Colton, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The theme of memory is important in all of Silven’s work as a mentalist, says director Allie Butler.
    — Karen Martin, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The evening’s entertainer, mentalist Oz Pearlman, hovers over them, trying to guess the name Leavitt has chosen for her unborn child.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In this remake of a 1947 film noir, Bradley Cooper plays a carnival worker who learned a mentalist's tricks and uses them to con rich folks, which works for a time.
    — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Feb. 2022

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