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conjures up
Example Sentences
The speaker conjures up centuries of collective sagacity, aligning oneself with an eternal, inarguable good.
It conjures up the bad old days when people were warehoused in institutions.
It conjures up all sorts of nice mental pictures: waterfalls, butterflies, the slow return to spring after a long winter.
Fairylands is a name that conjures up a dreamy, other-worldly place, somewhere to escape the cares of a busy life.
Illustrating the landmark moment in the equal rights movement with an image of Bert and Ernie instantly conjures up nostalgia.
The patient then withdraws into himself, and in his self-imposed isolation, he conjures up imaginary companionship.
What scenes this history of an inanimate object conjures up to the mind's eye.
Major Lockhart's lively letter gives one a longing for the fresh, breezy life and fine scenery it conjures up.
The harsh ascetic, however, is the one the word ascetic most generally conjures up.
When left to his imagination, without the guidance of revelation, man conjures up a heaven and a hell to suit his fancy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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