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Example sentences for: invocation

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

Let's consider President Bush's nostalgic invocation of the Soviet military.
But there is something else important to say about swearing--that it represents the invocation of those ideas a society considers powerful, awesome, and a little scary.
The jury chose death, and the judge agreed, calling Capano's invocation of his family further evidence of his selfishness, ruthlessness, and contempt.
An entirely innocent passage from Henry James (reprinted for us to judge for ourselves) prompts this from Sedgwick: "[The text] shows how in James a greater self-knowledge and a greater acceptance and specificity of homosexual desire transform this half-conscious enforcing rhetoric of anality, numbness, and silence into a much richer, pregnant address to James's male muse, an invocation to fisting-as-écriture."
The end of the Philadelphia Declaration resonates with another invocation of a higher power: “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”