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 or other means to enable personnel to summon help in case of emergency.

  • 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.

  • Before the answer could be given, he had to summon up a variation on the venerable theme--

  • 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.

  • They simply invoked the 10 percent rule, accepting the top 10 percent of high school students into classes at ole Longhorn U. This is less than optimal but will have to do until we can summon the political will to improve the quality of schools that serve black and Latino populations.


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