conjure
verb (used with object)
to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell.
was conjuring
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past progressiveof conjure.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Centuries before “The Exorcist,” Shakespeare was conjuring evil spirts in “Macbeth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2022
The game was conjuring up long-suppressed memories of the worst days of the program under Tyrone Willingham in 2008.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2021
“I realized that, in writing about my father and my uncles, I was conjuring my own alternative existence, another way my life might have turned out,” he said.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
How could audiences be immersed in the emotional life he was conjuring on screen if he didn’t dare take the plunge himself, without reservation or self-protection?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2017
He was conjuring stretchers and lifting the limp forms of Harry, Hermione, and Black onto them.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
