Example sentences for: invoke

How can you use “invoke” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He had a consistent and completely rational world view without a need to invoke vitalism, or any non-material force (M.

  • Nor do we believe in sex any more the way most American children and millions of adults believed in it a generation ago: as an act of profound mystery and importance that one did not engage in, or discuss, or even invoke, without a certain amount of excitement and risk.

  • Over the years, pro-choicers have continued to invoke medical expertise, particularly by rigging polls to ask whether "a woman and her doctor" (as opposed to a woman alone) should be entrusted with the abortion decision.

  • (I use the word "installed" rather loosely, considering that the damn thing crashes every time you try to print a Word document and will not allow you to print anything in "best mode"--a euphemism for the really really slow mode that you have to invoke if you actually will need to subsequently read whatever you printed out.)

  • Proponents of the ingeniously named California Civil Rights Initiative, which would forbid all state government affirmative-action policies, routinely invoke the sentence from King's "I Have a Dream" speech looking forward to the day his children would be judged not by the "color of their skin" but by "the content of their character."


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