summon
Example Sentences
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The valets in the lobby summon golf carts with a flick of the wrist, graciously driving me back and forth from the parking lot.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026
The question remains whether we as a people can summon the political will to make the needed changes — or any.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
“From the beginning, the conceit was to summon all the types of experiences of Blackness in one place, the project being a vessel or container for all of that expression,” Halsey says.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Tears are hard to summon for a man whose soul and spirit have long since departed, leaving behind just the husk of a human being.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
He was worried he might become one of those ghosts if they lost this war—eternally doomed to pay for his failures, assuming there was anyone left to summon him.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing summon
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