Example sentences for: summon

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Bin Ladin, whose efforts in Afghanistan had earned him celebrity and respect, proposed to the Saudi monarchy that he summon mujahideen for a jihad to retake Kuwait.

  • Nashiri claims not to have had any telephone or email contact with Bin Ladin while planning the Cole operation; rather, whenever Bin Ladin wanted to meet, he would have an al Qaeda member travel to Pakistan to summon Nashiri by telephone.


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