MAGICIAN in a Sentence

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For MAGICIAN, below is one of 19 sentences:
Any magician knows most people will watch the hand that's moving, the hand the performer is looking at, and not the other hand.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAGICIAN
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magician
 n.  one who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience; sorcerer; wizard
Classic Sentence:
1  Why," said he, "a magician could call up a lot of genies, and they would hash you up like nothing before you could say Jack Robinson.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III.
2  Well pleased the little magician hastened away to prove the powers of the spectacles in the theatre; no place seeming to him more fitted for such a trial.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
3  He is the magician who needs but to wink when passing a fishmonger's or a wine merchant's.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
4  And all the while, like a hidden magician, Chichikov's lawyer imparted driving power to that machine which caught up a man into its mechanism before he could even look round.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
5  Perhaps some Arabian-night magician, opened up the place for the day, and shut it up for ever when we came away.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
6  As if a magician's wand had touched him, the garland of roses transformed him into a vision of Oriental beauty.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
7  A Jewish magician might be the subject of equal abhorrence with a Jewish usurer, but he could not be equally despised.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  Glubbdubdrib, as nearly as I can interpret the word, signifies the island of sorcerers or magicians.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VII.
9  It is about one third as large as the Isle of Wight, and extremely fruitful: it is governed by the head of a certain tribe, who are all magicians.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VII.
10  I said, all right; then the thing for us to do was to go for the magicians.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III.
11  They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they transform them into oysters and swallow them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH
Example Sentence:
1  The magician will conjure a rabbit out of his hat.
2  The magician was so dexterous that we could not follow him as he performed his tricks.
3  The magician demonstrated his renowned legerdemain.
4  The magician amazed the audience with his sleight of hand.
5  Any magician knows most people will watch the hand that's moving, the hand the performer is looking at, and not the other hand.
6  The magician's talk created a diversion of attention.
7  Yeah, they hired a magician to come and do magic and he was really terrific.
8  I gasped in/with astonishment at the magician's skill.