conjuration

Example Sentences

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It’s an inward-looking musical conjuration of a city that’s partially vanished — to refugee outflows, to military curfews — and a city that is still, defiantly, standing.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023

A cracking whip and a thudding bass drum bring this sublime conjuration to an end.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

I am not capable of that sort of conjuration, and it seems that many others in the media no longer are, either.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2014

But by then the myth of the killer-ape had caught hold and Dart’s conjuration had mesmerised millions.

From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2012

She took it from the doctor, but could not help turning pale, as though some conjuration was brewing.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke