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View synonyms for conjure up

conjure up

verb

  1. to present to the mind; evoke or imagine

    he conjured up a picture of his childhood

  2. to call up or command (a spirit or devil) by an incantation


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Example Sentences

All of us can readily conjure up horror scenarios by the isolated person acting badly.

Nine times out of ten, it will conjure up an image of a brooding, sweaty, long-haired hunk.

It used to be that the only political villains we could conjure up were men.

Nor can Saudi Arabia expect to conjure up a new league between Arab states as a strategic alternative to America.

It makes me think Breaking Bad is hurtling toward as perfect an ending as anyone could conjure up on cable TV.

Or was it well to conjure up angelical or supernatural persons to repeat it?

Conjure up for me then, here and now, any sort of features whatsoever that please your fancy.

He was worse than the gossiping women, letting himself conjure up weird and incredible ideas.

He tried to conjure up his agony of longing for his mistress.

But hang it, I thought you came to enjoy yourself and not to conjure up things to make you sad.

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