Example sentences for: invokes

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

  • Tacitly, Daly, like most feminists, invokes an earlier, quieter voice, that of Virginia Woolf.

  • But while the silk hat no longer invokes uptown swells, no other headgear has replaced it in our metonymy.

  • The next scene invokes a newspaper story as a third-party verifier of the scandal, and adds the charge that John's campaign is guilty of the dirty deed and of lying about it.

  • Lincoln summed up the ambivalent role of religious faith in the Brothers’ War: “Both [sides] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other.”

  • He invokes the rhetoric we associate with our eighteenth century Constitution enthroning freedom over equality.


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