(n.) One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
(n.) One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand.
(n.) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
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.
Sorcerer
Definition:
(n.) A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.
Example Sentences:
(1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
(2) Then, zipping his cagoule purposefully, this sonic sorcerer and eccentric sweetheart issues a parting shot.
(3) 'They are warriors, sorcerers and magicians,' she says.
(4) The story begins in 16th-century China, where an evil sorcerer, The Son Of Hell, seeks to take over the world.
(5) You’ll often hear a director or production designer complaining that a particular neighbourhood “does not look enough like itself”, and making various cosmetic changes – a nondescript wall in the East Village might be gussied up with flyers for punk shows, for example, or a Chinatown byway given additional Chinese signage and decoration, as was done on Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
(6) Donald Trump remains in the Oval Office, making decisions about whom to explode next (in the interview he calls this responsibility “the bigness of it all”), not gathering dust on a sorcerer’s shelf.
(7) For infertility, witches and spirits can be responsible but suspicion focuses mostly on the evil-doing of another individual, corresponding to the classical description of a sorcerer, and the "witch" or sorcerer is generally a very close relative, possibly even the husband, and sometimes the woman herself, especially when the ritual fails.
(8) The 90s saw a move into big-budget action – Armageddon, The Rock, Con Air – while today, thanks to a Disney deal, he's responsible for more family-oriented juggernauts: The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Prince Of Persia weren't enormous successes; the four Pirates Of The Caribbean films were.
(9) As well as playing Smaug, Cumberbatch is voicing the Necromancer, the evil Mirkwood sorcerer who is revealed in the Lord of the Rings to be the evil spirit Sauron.
(10) Iger could end up playing the role of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, serving under the tutelage of Jobs, the 21st-century conjuror who transforms every industry he touches.
(11) Under the influence of the Christian church, and because of the progress of modern medicine, the power of the sorcerers and healers gradually decreased.
(12) The plants are used by 3 principal practitioners: 1) curanderos (healers), who tend to specialize in the care of certain diseases; 2) herbalists, who use many of the materials used in traditional medicine; and 3) brujos, who are sorcerers and witches.
(13) 'Diviners', 'medicinemen', 'witches' and 'sorcerers' are defined and distinguished.
(14) The traditional providers are the traditional birth attendants, the folk healers, herbalists, faith healers, and the so-called witches and sorcerers, which are not treated in a derogatory manner in the Philippines.
(15) The early-evening crowd in this cosy central London pub have no idea that a sonic sorcerer stands in their midst.
(16) Isis decapitates its victims, just like our friends the Saudis – but again, they kill alleged “sorcerers” off-camera.
(17) The looming debut of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange , a key member of The Avengers in some of the original comic books, has also inspired speculation that the sorcerer supreme could eventually join the superhero team on the big screen.
(18) A powder prepared by Haitian voodoo sorcerers for the making of zombis was extracted with acetic acid, the extract concentrated and applied to a small cation exchange column followed by elution with water and then acetic acid.
(19) The Marvel universe’s sorcerer supreme is a figure expected to have a central role in the studio’s ambitious next wave of superhero movies.
(20) Doctor Strange, who first debuted in 1963, is a former neurosurgeon who protects the planet against magical and mystical threats in his role as Sorcerer Supreme.