How to Use summons in a Sentence

summons

1 of 2 noun
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  • The judge issued a summons.
  • He received a royal summons.
  • More a calling, a summons to the art, than a craft book.
    — ELLE, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The man was given a summons to appear in court for the crack pipe.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But the man's son, who has the same name and lives at the same address, responded to the summons and served in his stead.
    — CBS News, 13 July 2022
  • The liquor board has fined the two employees about $118 and served a summons for the owner's arrest.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 14 July 2022
  • Instead, the summons went to a person in the same household with the same last name, who is 25 years older.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 8 July 2022
  • He was released at the scene and told that a summons would be issued in lieu of an arrest.
    — cleveland, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The suspense will not be killing you, though the final battle summons aspects of grandeur.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2021
  • His father wound up signing the court summons and he was taken to the Bedford Jail to sober up.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 31 July 2021
  • As part of his defense, Hollingsworth sent Lightfoot a court summons at City Hall, records show.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • This summons platelets, a type of blood cell that begins to form clots, hindering blood flow to the organ.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
  • According to the Erie Times-News, the two are to receive the charges through the mail by summonses and were not arrested.
    — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • But Khan waited the next three days for a summons to pick up their passports at the embassy, and his emails went unanswered.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Rhaenys summons Rhaenyra’s sons, Lucerys and Jacaerys, who are in the middle of combat training on the beach, to see their mother in her room.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Oct. 2022
  • With court summons sent by mail, many people do not receive mail and have P.O. boxes.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Officers spoke with the bite victim and the dog owner and the owner was cited and released with a court summons.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The company failed to respond to a summons a month later, setting the stage for the default judgment.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2021
  • In the absence of such ceremonies, however, is the summons to respond to the fallout from Afghanistan.
    — Noël Lipana, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Crabfeeder summons more soldiers into the open and Daemon is felled by a pair of arrows.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Shourd has not responded to a court summons to return to stand trial.
    — CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Court records show that at one point, Thomas couldn’t be located for summons service.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Records in the new case show those officers — a captain and two lieutenants — were served their summonses last week.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • When a man showed up at Gummow's front door in October with a court summons, the single mother was crushed.
    — Anna Werner, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Whiteside did not appear in court on a summons and a warrant was issued for his arrest in May.
    — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2022
  • Kemp, however, is hardly the only witness who has sought to quash a summons.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Sure enough, the envelope contained a summons to serve on jury duty — in two months.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 28 Oct. 2022
  • After a fight involving Eikons (this game’s name for summons), Clive swears revenge.
    — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 9 Nov. 2021
  • All defendants were issued summonses by Nov. 20, and a pro hac vice motion was filed two days later, meaning Hall requested an out-of-state attorney to join the case.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Ten people were arrested, nine of whom received summonses for disorderly conduct and were released, police said.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
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summons

2 of 2 verb
  • Judging from a live video clip, the band summons the fast fury thrash-fans expect.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2022
  • An 18-year-old will be summonsed for trespassing, as will a 17-year-old.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 24 June 2017
  • In a Season 1 episode, Vanderpump summons the staff to talk through a fight that took place.
    — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
  • He will be summonsed to court, but a date for his appearance has not yet been set, the statement said.
    — Maddie Kilgannon, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The alarm was raised to a 2-11, which summons additional manpower and equipment to the scene.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 16 Jan. 2022
  • And this is a guy who during games works harder and summons more emotion than most of his players.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Using his pouch of sand, Dream summons his helm, and the demon-thief with it — Coranon (Munya Chawawa).
    — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Livid, Viserys summons his brother to the Iron Throne, whereupon Viserys sits with a sword at his side.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The story is told through a series of cab rides to and from airports, when Aiden summons the narrator.
    — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • Kroc summons his full panoply of sales skills in the hope of persuading the brothers to let him in and start selling franchises.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2017
  • These changes cannot overcome the laws of physics, of course, but the circa-5,000lb DBX summons a convincing impression of a sports car when pointed at the right road.
    — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The victim’s mother summons the playmates, four years after her daughter’s death, to...
    — WSJ, 14 Apr. 2017
  • The man is being summonsed and will not be arrested, police said.
    — Alyssa Lukpat, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
  • Jeanie finally summons a pair of Atlanta cops, who order Earn to get Gloria on the phone.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This goes over very well with the king because later, while Alicent is in bed trying to sleep, a servant summons the queen to the king’s chambers.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2022
  • That heightens the senses, that intensifies the ambiance, that summons the goose bumps.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • So when Santiago-Hudson pauses to take a sip of water, Mack summons him back with a few low strums.
    — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But Natale Pirrotta nicely summons the angst and anger of rock star wannabe Roger, although the production short changes the recluse’s re-entrance to the world.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Hargan soon summons his other two daughters: 32-year-old Ashley and 34-year-old Megan.
    — CBS News, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The sequence in which Rubio’s mother summons her son to return shows this disruption in the most dramatic instant of the film.
    — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Alone, its garnish of lime studded with fragrant cloves summons the tropics.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 19 June 2019
  • At a consultation, Korda even summons his courage to ask point-blank about the ten-year survival rates of his patients.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
  • When his home is threatened by humans, a young dragon summons the courage to seek a mythical paradise where dragons can live in peace and fly free.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Still reeling from the death of her mother, Kela finds a magical comb near the ocean that summons a wrathful mermaid that will grant her a wish — but at a dangerous price.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2022
  • High school student Julie (Madison Reyes) accidentally summons the ghosts of three teenage boys from the '90s.
    — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Sara Lipstate) summons the tones of bells, choirs, orchestras, calliopes and distant tsunamis.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Here, Ferrante summons up the image of the kind of notebooks that once were given to children practicing their alphabet.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • July also summons athletes back to the gridiron and summer workouts for other fall sports.
    — Shelby Dermer, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2018
  • Online court records indicate Crown Hill has been summonsed in the matter, which remains pending.
    — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 25 Mar. 2016
  • At an anguished moment, Jama summons the courage to confront a human mob seeking vengeance.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 22 July 2022

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