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evoke or provoke to appear or occur
Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple -
summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
he conjured wild birds in the air
raise the specter of unemployment
call down the spirits from the mountain
How To Use call forth In A Sentence
- By all means," said Hamilton, perhaps a little shily; but it was promise enough to call forth Louis 'heartfelt thanks. Louis' School Days A Story for Boys
- To call forth ( a reaction, for example ).
- The more we learn about our own body, that wonderful and beautiful house in which we live, the more we shall see, in what God thus formed from the dust of the ground, to call forth our admiration; but the body of the first man, although fashioned with such perfection in all its parts, did not _live_ until God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
- Their potentialities call forth our own, and in the dialogue of which I have spoken, we discover our own inner vision by bodying them forth.
- We hope you will call forth all your energies in doing this work.
- A difficult situation can call forth a person's best qualities.
- It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval -- and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances, which call forth a woman's sedulous attention. Chapter 18
- You have to call forth all your energy in doing this.
- What aspect of being do I choose to call forth?
- Or, perhaps a "kern," standing solitary upon some hill-top, would call forth a whole series of Danish and Norwegian legends, which would give them food for reflection for days. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated