summons

Instead of basking in the wealth he had amassed as a banker and financier, Mellon accepted a summons from President-elect Warren G. Harding and got on a train to Marion, Ohio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Father Louis Cameli, a priest at Holy Name Cathedral, said the news was "not just a medical event" but a "spiritual summons" to trust God.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

According to the filing, attempts were made to serve Seaver with a summons on three separate occasions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

But a change of address meant he missed a court summons, triggering a deportation order that ICE agents noticed.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

The door of the car sprang open, like a summons.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Justice Department letter said the French had asked for U.S. assistance three times this year, including for serving summonses on X officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

The summonses were issued "as part of the application of administrative sanctions in accordance with the applicable provisions", the minister added.

From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026

Over the past two weeks the disgraced leader had already ignored three summonses issued for him to appear for questioning, leading a Seoul court to issue a warrant for his arrest early this week.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2025

At Yale, the police placed protesters’ wrists into zip ties on Monday morning and escorted them onto campus shuttles to receive summonses for trespassing.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

Piles of legal documents began arriving almost daily at Deborah’s door: summonses and petitions and updates and motions.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

“There should never have been an arrest warrant, because normally she would receive a summons in the mail. In many cases, people who are charged with nonviolent offenses like this are summonsed into court.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

Many of those arrested earlier in the week had been summonsed for Russian military service, state media reported.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2022

He also appears to have been annoyed that Spain was drawn in – in Tehran, the Spanish ambassador had been summonsed by the foreign ministry to explain Madrid’s role.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2019

Mohammed Altaf-Khan was one of four Oxfordshire councillors to be summonsed during the 2015-16 tax year according to Freedom of Information requests collected by Private Eye.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2016

I'd summonsed the sher'f and two constables to go 'long.

From The Purchase Price by Emerson Hough

With a terrible love of summonsing, and a thorough enjoyment of a law-court, he enters into the spirit of the thing like an attorney's clerk.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Old-fashioned landladies might refuse her lunch, it is true; and a narrowminded police force might desire to secure her, and wrap her in a rug preliminary to summonsing her. 

From Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome