Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: conjured
IPA transcription: [k'ɑndʒɚd]
Usage examples
  • Her mind conjured up before her the vision of what was, perhaps at this very moment, passing downstairs.
  • A waiter conjured the bill from some recess of his waistcoat and served it on a clean plate to the American.
  • I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.
  • He sought him, and conjured him to adopt his defence, and on his oath declared that he was innocent of the crime of which he was accused.
  • My reason was convinced by my eyes; and the phantoms of impossibility which I had conjured up were dissipated by the work of my own hands.
  • The Unquenchables had done their best to be worthy of the name, for like elves they had worked by night and conjured up a comical surprise.
  • "I'll bet he's cussing things blue on some pinnacle up there." He laughed at the picture his imagination conjured, and rode out into the swirl.
  • He imagined a faint, wild rumour of panic voices, conjured up scenes of horror indescribable as that great fabric sank almost instantaneously, as if some gigantic hand plucked her under.
  • However, as one plan after another was conjured by the strength of his desires, he at last hit upon one which came to him almost with the force of a blow and brought him sitting upright among his sleeping companions.
  • This was the bright tide of the picture which his imagination, aided by that gaudy painter and fancy colorer, Hope, had conjured up before his mind's eye, but the reverse side of the picture was at hand, and now he paused to ask himself seriously: "Can this be?