Sentence examples for some genie from inspiring English sources

If some genie granted me the power to reverse time and meet up with my naïve sixty-three-year-old self, what advice would I give him?

"Listen, I don't teach that God is some genie in a lamp and you rub the Bible three times and he pops out," he said.

Still, as Townsend points out, wading through the muck (three hundred thousand books will have been published in the United States by the end of 2011) is a dirty job that somebody (or some genie) has to do.

Some sick genie, it seemed, had been let out of the bottle.

President Chávez is not some monstrous genie who inexplicably popped out of the bottle of Venezuelan politics 10 years ago.

You type in a band you like, and you get hours of music programmed by some Pandora genie without having to buy a CD.

Wearing two suits would have been legal, if far from uncontroversial, until last Saturday, when swimming's world governing body, FINA, finally started the awkward process of attempting to stuff at least some of the genie back in the bottle that it had left unsupervised.

Too often we treat God as some kind of genie in a bottle summoned up to do our bidding.

"I think it's amazing that since Australia, most of the cities I have played in, there has been some kind of mini Genie Army and I have received many, many stuffed animals this year.

They do not come true by some Disney godmother or a genie in a lamp.

Ben Mauk is a Fulbright Scholar living in Berlin and a regular online contributor to the New Yetker.