Example sentences for: summon

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

  • House Speaker Newt Gingrich compared Reno to Nixon henchman John Mitchell, and threatened to summon her before Congress and investigate whether she was involved.

  • The Journal and the NYT try to summon atmosphere with their descriptions of early meetings where the top dogs sniffed each other.

  • But when you run into such things in real life, head-on and with no warning, there is really no remedy: all you can do is face the inevitable with whatever fortitude you can summon.

  • Nearly everyone I know has (=does have) a nickname in the Windwards, where the Prime Minister of St. Vincent is Son Mitchell (evidently the first-born of an inside marriage), while my builder is Sonny, not an easy name for a New York liberal to summon him by.

  • In the scene in which he heals Patricia Clarkson, he hovers over her bedridden form in a way that's meant to summon up rape fantasies of fragile white Southern flowers menaced by darkies--and to miraculously invert them.


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