Example sentences for: invoke

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

  • I have not seen the word list, but, from the directory of programs I can invoke on the monitor, I know it contains about 223,000 characters, or about 37,000 words.

  • Now all doubt in that department is at an end: call up an entry on the screen, invoke the FILE, and a menu opens to reveal a number of choices that allow one to print the entire entry or only the part that has been highlighted.

  • The authors recommended that the federal government invoke an obscure provision of the Controlled Substances Act of 1917 to revoke the licenses of doctors who dare to act on Proposition 215, and that the Drug Enforcement Administration ignore state authorities and "use its power" to "move unilaterally" against pro-pot doctors.

  • You see the confusion when biological parents invoke "blood ties" to reclaim a child from adoptive parents.

  • The weak-sites models invoke dissociation, specifically to explain the correlation between the two properties of the boundaries of the CR: their partial cutting, and their broad distribution of TASs.


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