(v. t.) To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.
(v. i.) To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.
(v. t.) To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers.
(v. i.) To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
(2) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
(3) Bastille were 2013's big British breakthrough band, but you'd be hard-pushed to mentally conjure the image of what they actually look like.
(4) Photograph: Mondadori via Getty Images Because that decade was scarred by multiple evils, the phrase can be used to conjure up serial spectres.
(5) But then this isn’t really a team yet, more a working model conjured out of the air by Klopp’s whirling hands on the touchline.
(6) Suárez conjured space on the left of the box and his cross-shot bounced off the post and out to Downing, who sidestepped two defenders before firing a shot that Kenny beat into the path of Kuyt, who poked the ball in from five yards.
(7) Quietly, the children would huddle together and ask each other: “What will you have for breakfast?” And I remember saying: “Maybe an egg or a piece of bread and butter,” and tried to conjure up memories of home.
(8) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
(9) In her journals, Cook conjured her in her mind, and it was someone other than herself.
(10) Young people now may hardly know her, and it is hard today to conjure up the sexiness, the daring, the insolence of some women on screen in the 50s when the Production Code still prevailed.
(11) Obama was politically isolated, unable to conjure broad international support or congressional backing.
(12) I fear that Corbyn is likely to discover, pretty quickly, that the rhetoric of change is easier to conjure than change itself.
(13) And despite the images of backroom deals and leather furniture that a snifter conjures up, whiskey is for everyone.
(14) Their loss has been our gain as the longlist casts a wide net in terms of both geography and tone, ranging from the slimmest of novels – Colm Tóibín's stark, surprising The Testament of Mary conjures the gospel according to Jesus's mother in a mere 100-odd pages – to vast doorstops, playful with genre and form.
(15) He then wins the next point after conjuring a perfect return from a near-perfect serve, after a drop-shot that Nadal returns with not quite enough interest, but clips the top of the net at 30-40 and the game's gone.
(16) "I don't want to be doing plays that are conjuring badness, because they make you feel full of badness.
(17) Kyrgios overcame a back injury and a two-set deficit to somehow conjure a 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 8-6 fourth-round triumph over Andreas Seppi at Melbourne Park on Sunday night.
(18) You cannot conjure your actual personality, which you can remember only vaguely, in a theoretical sense.
(19) Brendan Rodgers' team had made enough chances in a vastly improved second half display to merit the point but arguably Sturridge and certainly Suárez should not have been on the pitch to conjure the late reprieve.
(20) The ghosts of some of those conjured characters seem to inhabit the space.
Hoodoo
Definition:
(n.) One who causes bad luck.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Murray found new reserves of strength to take the fifth and lay a 76-year hoodoo to rest.
(2) Keep your bearings – the visitor centre is easy to spot from any vantage – and let yourself get lost between the hoodoos.
(3) North End, aiming to end an eight-game play-off hoodoo, had been poor, but Garner ensured they will head to South Yorkshire next Thursday on level terms.
(4) Here thousands of mushroom-shaped hoodoos sit clustered in a secluded valley on the edge of the spectacular San Rafael Swell.
(5) The white cliffs, hoodoos and slot canyon are all made of of volcanic tuff that erupted around a million years ago.
(6) Yet a lot of teams have buried a hoodoo at Old Trafford over the last couple of seasons.
(7) 7.44pm GMT Kick off coming up soon... Can SKC break their Houston hoodoo?
(8) Andy Murray has capped a year in which he broke a 77-year Wimbledon hoodoo and played his way into the hearts of the nation by winning the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award.
(9) The first half of the three-mile trail winds through a slot canyon so narrow you can touch the walls on both sides, then the canyon opens up beneath the 100ft conical hoodoos that give this national monument its name, before switchbacking up to the top of the mesa for a sweeping overlook of the Jemez mountains and the Rio Grande River Valley.
(10) It's now a hoodoo, voodoo, ghost, curse, rally monkey, wear-your-cap-inside-out situation 9.31pm BST Giants 6, Reds 3 Top 9th Xavier Nady in to pinch hit for the Giants.
(11) Paul Lambert brought up an unwanted half-century in charge of Aston Villa as Hull City overcame their own hoodoo against their relegation rivals to plunge them into the bottom three .
(12) Don't get me wrong, Rodgers is one of the best QB's around and has a bit of a hoodoo over Da Bears, but it's forecast to be a cold and windy evening in Chicago that will probably suit the running game best.
(13) Ukraine’s hopes of finally ending their play-off hoodoo and qualifying for Euro 2016 were given a huge boost with a 2-0 first-leg victory over Slovenia in Lviv.
(14) The images, which are deeply layered and particular to a black Southern vernacular and aesthetic, beg to be catalogued: Creole and Black American, Mardi Gras Indian, crawfish, Black cowboys, wig shops, socks and slippers, corsets and parasols, parades, high school basketball, step team moves, bounce queens Big Freedia and Messy Mya, cotillions, “twirl on dem haters”, braids, “bama”, black spirituality (church and hoodoo, maybe even a nod to Mami Wata), black mama side eyes, drawls, Blue Ivy black girl magic fierceness.
(15) Seasoned hikers can head to the Valley of the 1,000 Devils , with its hoodoo rock formations and dinosaur fossils.