Sentence example with the word 'legerdemain'

legerdemain

Definition n. an illusory feat

Last update: August 22, 2016


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The psychic uses legerdemain to convince people she is talking to their dead loved ones.   [Please select]

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When the car salesman wanted to sell a car, he often used legerdemain to make individuals believe they were getting the best deal in town.    [Please select]

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Not so the sailor, beholding the scenery of the Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain in the powers of frost and air, he, shivering and half shipwrecked, instead of rainbows speaking hope and solace to his misery, views what seems a boundless churchyard grinning upon him with its lean ice monuments and splintered crosses.   [Please select]

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But let us see: I think he is about to show us some of his legerdemain.   [Please select]

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Winchester lay the fewest of miles away, but somewhere there was legerdemain.   [Please select]

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He covered them with some newspapers, and at the station succeeded by some legerdemain in slipping them into one of his cases.   [Please select]

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With lightning-like legerdemain the quack had shuffled this bill to the bottom of his pile, and lifting up the one that lay on top, exposed it to the view of his audience.   [Please select]

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To dream of practising legerdemain, or seeing others doing so, signifies you will be placed in a position where your energy and power of planning will be called into strenuous play to extricate yourself.   [Please select]

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