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How to use summon in a sentence

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Long blasts are to be used to summon the people to assembly, short blasts to mobilize the military troops.
The castle loomed above us, within sight, but we could not summon enough energy to convince each other to go up there.
Eno could summon cathedrals out of matchbooks with a few twists of the studio knobs.
The effect of the drug is to summon up people's happiest memories as a means of keeping them in a blissful state.
He was seducing her, the sneak, and she couldn't seem to summon the willpower to do anything about it.
Within this context, it is difficult to summon up sympathy for any of the men who have been asked to vacate their positions.
Crucially he or she will have statutory powers to both summon witnesses and compel evidence.
A city centre church verger has the power to summon scores of police and dozens of security guards at the touch of a button.
There are suspicions about how Republican Sinn Fein, a splinter group, was able to summon such huge numbers.
At 21-14 it looked as if Ashton's drop goal could be vital, but the Dragons could not summon up the energy for the final effort.
The only surprise is that it has taken them so long to summon the will to do so, and that the government has acted so cack-handedly.
Drawing a card from the deck will summon one inconvenience with which the wielder can harass his foes.
Before anyone got wet, there would be the ritual war cry, just to stir the blood and summon up the spirits of champions past.
No doubt West Bromwich substitutes will summon players off the pitch, take their preferred place on the field and send off the referee.
I don't think you can photo things like Servitors or summon Hermes to visible appearance on Oprah.
As the World Cup lunacy begins, I intend to summon up my two cheers for anyone who has a hope of beating our English friends.
When life deals her another blow, Kiki must summon every ounce of inspiration to overcome it.
I admire that degree of attention to appearance, but I rarely manage to summon it up when I'm getting myself ready to leave the house.
The mobile phone is certainly a must for pedestrians as in times of distress they can summon immediate help.
I know it constitutes an effort to summon up a sense of everyday life in a small town that is not precisely like every other in Germany.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He could intermit the action of a Parliament for a time, sending the members to their homes until he should summon them again.
But when the train reached the Concorde station, he could not summon the will power to get out.
It reminded me to wait with what patience I could summon for the house detective.
There was time for no more, and Saunders proceeded to summon the delinquent.
And when ten days of the Quadragesimal fast were yet remaining, there came one to summon him to the king.
When a person is judged by social standards to be deviant and even evil, however, it is difficult to summon caring.
I cannot summon Carwin to my bar, and make him the attestor of my innocence, and the accuser of himself.
The trouble arose where he could not summon the mesne grantor, and the new right was given him for that case alone.
He took out the dog whistle that he used when coming down to the landing stage to summon the boat from the yacht, and blew it.
Abruptly the man turned in his chair to summon a waiter, and exposed his profile.
The king could call men directly to the fyrd, summon them to his court, and tax them without intervention of their lords.
I tried to summon from the vasty deep all the worthies of the eighteenth century.
Here were none to sympathise, none to summon him to new relations or recall the old.
What was there in her smile that should seem to summon one with a spell of witchery?
As he was about to return to the charge her Ladyship desired a passer-by to summon her carriage.
She had been too far in the depths of Poland for Esther to summon up her shade.
Such was their forwardness on the 10th, that it was determined to summon the commandant.
Sophy admitted him and left him in the library, while she went to summon her.
I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men to my side.
And he wrote to Belisarius that as soon as they should summon him he should go thither with all speed.
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