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
The General, at this conjuration, swung sharp round, a stout, hale, handsome old fellow, with gray moustaches and a high color, holding a spade in his hand and clad in a linen coat.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
