How to Use sorcerer in a Sentence

sorcerer

noun
  • Jareth made for a most enchanting sorcerer, with a shock of blond hair and some out-of-this-world pipes.
    — Marc Bernardin, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
  • He's been a steamboat captain, a sorcerer, a ghost hunter, a band leader, a movie star, and more.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 June 2024
  • Strange is a sorcerer who can project his spirit across dimensions and into dreams.
    — Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • The women in the corps are swans because of a spell cast on them by a sorcerer named von Rothbart.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Now their sorcerer was in custody, and his talismans were broken and burned.
    — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Merlin is a great sorcerer who has a dark secret that prevents him from wanting to use his magic.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 22 July 2020
  • Almost like it’s being conjured into the world by a sorcerer’s wand.
    — Amy Francombe, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
  • From stars and birds to goblets and sorcerers, pips bore symbolic meaning, much like the trump cards of older tarot decks.
    — Adrienne Bernhard, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The sorcerer is a superhero that might not have the same reach with fans as the God of Thunder does.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Apr. 2022
  • To trap the prince, the sorcerer sends his daughter Odile, disguised as Odette, to seduce him.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The movie is about a young man with magical powers who travels to his uncle with the request to fight his sorcerer father.
    — Claire Moses, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Candlemass broke new ground for histrionics in metal, but their best songs were about demons, sorcerers, and witches.
    — Brad Sanders, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2026
  • In classic role-playing style, players can traverse this landscape as a sword wielder, a sorcerer, an archer, and the like.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Sometimes a writer comes along who seems to float above language and direct it like a sorcerer, raising up whole worlds then sliding them out of the way.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The dance was once performed by the Zogo Le, the powerful sorcerer of the village.
    — Aaron Smith, CNN, 9 Oct. 2017
  • That’s the human factor, supercharged by the new sorcerers, who enable and promote new skills across the workforce.
    — Bipul Sinha, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Just like that, the sorcerer would make the Mad Titan forget everything and avoid the carnage.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Will being a sorcerer means that his powers are innate, drawn from a higher being (in this case, Vecna himself).
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Alexander Skarsgård, who will play the sorcerer Randall Flagg.
    — Wired, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Wizards are reliant on preparation, whereas sorcerers can summon their talent at will.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The other ace in the hole here is the cocktail program by Bachman, a sorcerer with rare and obscure ingredients.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The sorcerer wants to capture the non-MCU villains and send them back to their realities.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Entertain the children by shuffling to classical music in a sorcerer’s hat?
    — Joel Stein, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
  • What’s more, the sorcerer has done it with no McDonald’s all-Americans.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The story of Odette, a princess transformed into a swan by an evil sorcerer, is the epitome of classical ballet.
    — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Theron made her cameo minutes into the closing credits of the movie as a fellow sorcerer and one of Strange's most powerful allies.
    — Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com, 11 May 2022
  • The movie starred Davis as a sorcerer determined to save the life of a child — Elora Danan — being hunted by a queen.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • For the people of Haiti, the zombi was one who had died and been buried, only to be malignantly revived and enslaved by a sorcerer, or bokor.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
  • Davis will return to his role as the kind-hearted Willow, who is now a noted sorcerer, in a story set decades after the event of the original movie.
    — Jennifer M. Wood, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Satoru Gojo, the strongest jujutsu sorcerer, arrived to address the chaos, but curse users and spirits plotted to seal him away.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025

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