Example sentences for: invokes

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

  • Gore is a born-again Baptist who regularly invokes biblical verse on the stump.

  • 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.”

  • She hardly needs to mention it--the media bring it up anyway--but she invokes it subtly, alluding (as she did on two Sunday talk shows) to "women who drive their daughters halfway across the state to shake my hand, a woman they dare to believe in."

  • On the rare occasions the service is queried, it invokes the Dead President.

  • 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.


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