How do you use Svengali in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like persuader or inducer, plus the exact meaning.
Svengali in a sentence
Svengali meaning
One who manipulates or controls another as by some mesmeric or sinister influence; especially a coach, mentor or industry mogul.
Using Svengali
- The main meaning on this page is: One who manipulates or controls another as by some mesmeric or sinister influence; especially a coach, mentor or industry mogul.
- Useful related words include: persuader, inducer, fictional character, fictitious character.
Context around Svengali
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Svengali
- In this selection, "svengali" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, records, movie, pop, neil and revealed stand out and add context to how "svengali" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a svengali like operator and being a svengali who dictates. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "svengali" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with svengali
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
His reputation as a Svengali-like operator was already well established. (11 words)
The couple, who met in 2013 when they were both working on the movie Svengali, revealed they were engaged back in 2017. (22 words)
The pop Svengali later admitted to Rolling Stone that it took him 'about a millionth of a second' to spot the group's worldwide potential. (25 words)
Now mostly forgotten, the manufactured mid-Nineties pop band were described by their svengali-like manager Tom Watkins as “2 Unlimited meets ”, and their ridiculously catchy first-and-final album has just been re-released as a four-disc box set. (41 words)
McLaren or his friend Jamie Reid might drop a word like 'anarchy' or 'vacant' that Rotten seizes upon and turns into a manifesto, but McLaren is not the Svengali to Rotten he'd like to be perceived as. (38 words)
One comes from Michael Wolff, whose jaw-dropping (and thinly sourced) tales of White House dysfunction in cost Steve Bannon, Trump’s onetime Svengali, both his media platform and his billionaire patron. (32 words)
Example sentences (8)
Music biopic of Casablanca Records svengali Neil Bogart, starring Wiz Khalifa as George Clinton, Ledisi as Gladys Knight, Tayla Parx as Donna Summer and Jason Derulo as Ron Isley.
His reputation as a Svengali-like operator was already well established.
Now mostly forgotten, the manufactured mid-Nineties pop band were described by their svengali-like manager Tom Watkins as “2 Unlimited meets ”, and their ridiculously catchy first-and-final album has just been re-released as a four-disc box set.
The couple, who met in 2013 when they were both working on the movie Svengali, revealed they were engaged back in 2017.
The pop Svengali later admitted to Rolling Stone that it took him 'about a millionth of a second' to spot the group's worldwide potential.
Rather than being a Svengali who dictates what his base of supporters should do or say, president Trump is “the helpless puppet of these trolls,” according to Mr. Mueller’s office.
One comes from Michael Wolff, whose jaw-dropping (and thinly sourced) tales of White House dysfunction in cost Steve Bannon, Trump’s onetime Svengali, both his media platform and his billionaire patron.
McLaren or his friend Jamie Reid might drop a word like 'anarchy' or 'vacant' that Rotten seizes upon and turns into a manifesto, but McLaren is not the Svengali to Rotten he'd like to be perceived as.