How to Use summon in a Sentence

summon

verb
  • The queen summoned him back to the palace.
  • But James McArthur was summoned and got the final five outs for the save.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2024
  • That was really the best the Bears could summon on fourth-and-goal from the 1?
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2024
  • To lips long parching, next to mine, And summon them to drink.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • For the sake of your own health, summon the strength to assert yourself.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The West may summon the nerve to crack down hard on Mr. Lukashenko over the Ryanair hijacking.
    — Garry Kasparov, WSJ, 1 June 2021
  • Leaders will just have to summon the guts to enable it.
    — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Pascua and the deputy left Serna in her cell and did not summon help.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
  • While states can summon the guard on their own, the District does not have that power.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
  • One day, Wilson summoned Vail to meet with him, but wouldn’t say why.
    — Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The simplest way to gain lore is to summon glimmers to go questing.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Fixed an issue where Pals would not work if summoned too close to a tree.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
  • It’s said that the board of directors will summon him any day now.
    — Hernan Diaz, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
  • Ubers are easy to summon, as are taxis via the European app Freenow.
    — Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Two researchers summoned to the lodge treat their ailing boss with the unicorn’s blood and cure him.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Or will the Hoosiers, who have lost four games to teams ranked in the top 10 at the time, summon the defensive acumen to slow them down?
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The team summons Baltazar and Chipembere, who confirm that it was kept near the urn.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Edson Madeira was struggling to summon the right words.
    — New York Times, 22 July 2021
  • The families of some of them were summoned and threatened.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • But Uvalde could summon the resilience to move forward.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2022
  • On All Hallow’s Eve, when the moon is round, a virgin will summon us from under the ground.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 9 June 2022
  • Players will also be able to summon spirits from the ashes of the dead to help them in fights.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2021
  • And not just any Grisha, but a Sun Summoner, one with the power to summon the sun.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Each sunbed has a wooden table with a buzzer to summon someone to bring you food and drinks.
    — Adrienne Wyper, The Week Uk, theweek, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Get down on thy knees and pray like your life dependeth upon it, or use the phone, and summon forth The Plumber.
    — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 6 May 2021
  • To save her and embrace his true self, Benjamin must summon all his courage.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 26 June 2024
  • These portraits remind us, too, of the kind of bravery humans need to summon when the stakes are high.
    — Time, 20 Dec. 2022
  • But, from any pile of ashes, a phoenix can rise if the right people can figure out how to summon it.
    — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The film opens on a peasant couple summoning their son from a farm field.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • That plan may preclude the Astros from summoning Smith to the major leagues for the remainder of 2025.
    — Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 7 Mar. 2025

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