Example sentences for: summon

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

  • Mobile laboratories should be equipped with a telephone to enable personnel to summon help in case of emergency.

  • This reassurance--that somehow things will be all right, that there is a lot of ruin in a man, as well as in a nation, to paraphrase his idol, Adam Smith--has become part of me, and I can still summon it up when I am terrified because of a huge quarterly tax payment due or a bad day on the market.

  • The manifesto is on the Web, natch, at www.technorealism.org, but we are so stupefied by this problem that we are unable to summon the will to click on the link.

  • 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.

  • Maybe there was or is a subconscious view that the path to L2 proficiency and success is open only to those who can summon up the intellectual energy and also physical, dictionary-(man)handling stamina for the task.


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