Example sentences for: summon

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

  • If a cell-phone user retained any memory at all of how it once felt to have human dignity and not be enslaved to a ridiculous chirping machine that can summon you anywhere anytime to talk about the most trivial things, then that would be the end of an entire segment of the customizable digital gadget industry.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • And not only that--they can summon such magic consistently.


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