Example sentences for: invoke

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

  • Only after months of the press chiding them for their "double standard" did the groups begin to invoke the presumption on behalf of Kathleen Willey.

  • The left wall is allegorical, devoted to the bankers’ widely acknowledged virtues, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance, while religious themes invoke their piety on the other walls.

  • The Commission did not invoke any of the exemptions or special procedures authorized by section 605 in preparing its regulatory flexibility analysis.

  • The Clinton camp's threat to invoke executive privilege is widely dismissed as a foolish delaying tactic.

  • 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.


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