- present tense form of summon (3rd person singular).
summons
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Others have received a summons for an interview in April next year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The following day, police sergeant Sidney Short served him with a summons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Ravalomanana was removed as Senate president in October, shortly after the protests, and was arrested at his home in December after failing to respond to a summons from the gendarmerie.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
He leaves the room commanding the staff to “Make. Me. Money” and summons the elevator by barking “Open!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Shortly before showtime, August summons me to Marlena’s dressing tent to look at an advertisement for a white liberty horse.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
According to a spokesperson, who directed me to a specific code, there were 96 summonses issued for the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The summonses require the reporters to appear before a grand jury in Manhattan on Wednesday, the Times said.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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
He had a backlog of jury summonses he hadn’t responded to, and it was time to make it right.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
These were the summonses that you answered with your left foot forward, your right foot back, your hands guarding your face, one slightly lower than the other, cocked like a hammer.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Bury, who worked as a response officer, was arrested and interviewed in March before being summonsed to appear at court.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
“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
Then, a few weeks before the alleged incident at the InternContinental, he summonsed her to a boutique hotel in SoHo where Miramax was staging a movie in one of the rooms.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2020
Dangerous witnesses were shipped to places whence they could not be summonsed.
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
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
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