How To Use Summon In A Sentence

  • Martine summoned one of them with the press of an illuminated, arrowed button.
  • Summon one of the swiftest of the coria and have it wait in readiness," he added, as though by afterthought. The Moon Pool
  • The populist leader has dodged the issue of whether he will refuse a judicial summons to answer questions in the dock. Times, Sunday Times
  • On TV, NBC summoned Jack Nicklaus on the horn to start the encomiums. A Beautiful Blowout, Not a Poetic Payback
  • For being summoned to come and receiue his consecration at Canturburie (as alreadie yee haue heard) through counsell of the canons Yorke he refused so to doo: bicause they informed him that if he so did, it should be greatlie preiudiciall to the liberties of that sée, whose archbishop was of like authoritie in all things vnto the archbishop of Canturburie, so that he was bound onelie to fetch his consecration and benediction at Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
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  • There's the literal, like Chocobos, Moogles and certain summons; and the less so, like a particular visual and musical aesthetic, or themes of war ethics or class struggles. Archive 2008-04-01
  • They are in the nature of a proposed amended writ of summons, a summons for directions and an affidavit in each of the matters and a list of authorities in each of the matters.
  • That was by no means forthcoming and on 23 August 1990 the respondent issued an originating summons in the High Court seeking possession.
  • He was summonsed to appear in court.
  • His death had been a kind of summons; out of his self-willed existence into the service of Cesaria Yaos. GALILEE
  • I summonsed a waiter and reminded him of the coffee and asked if he could also bring some black pepper.
  • At the miracle of my birth, I came forth when my father summoned me.
  • He was summonsed over articles that appeared in Australia and PNG in January expressing concerns over rising crime and the security of his family in PNG.
  • He who talks much of his happiness summons grief. 
  • He was summoned to attend an emergency meeting.
  • Clocking in at just over a dozen jobs, players will have warriors, red, black, and white mages, paladins, thieves, samurai, ninjas, dragoons, monks, summoners, beast masters, and dark knights at their disposal.
  • The Norwegian Foreign Ministry summoned Iran's charge d'affaires on Thursday to protest against what it called the confiscation of Ebadi's Nobel medal and diploma and express 'grave concern' about the treatment of her husband. Khaleej Times : UAE News
  • If you could please refer yourselves to the summons on page 22 of the application book.
  • After paying emergency tax he found himself almost a third worse off than when he was on benefits and was summoned to court for council tax arrears. Times, Sunday Times
  • A little miracle that we summoned the strength to fight back. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was accused of treachery and was summoned to a closed meeting with the leaders of his group.
  • He often summons the image of a bridge, as he does here in his perhaps most definitive passage about the Overman: There it was too that I picked up the word "overman" by the way, and that man is something that must be overcome-that man is a bridge and no end: proclaiming himself blessed in view of his noon and evening, as the way to new dawns-Zarathustra's word of the great noon, and whatever else I hung up over man like the last crimson light of evening. Archive 2005-10-01
  • Communications," he summoned evenly, "try to explain to these…" Mindful of the monitoring officers, he tempered the label he'd intended to employ. "…people that we're here on a rescue— The Kobayashi Maru
  • He registered as a conscientious objector and was summoned appear before the tribunal set up to judge the sincerity of 'conchies'. Between silk and cyanide
  • But when Owen gets all his old clobber out of storage and summons a barber to his hotel room to spruce him up, it shows how great he would be as 007.
  • One can affect unawareness, feign indifference or summon up some other defense against such entreaties.
  • The meeting was hastily summoned to resolve the dispute over the promotional rights of the tournament when two Cape Town promoters vied to stage it.
  • Two more men were summoned and all used violence to force him into uniform. Times, Sunday Times
  • His friend summoned the genie, and made a wish that all of the forty thieves would be sent to a land far away.
  • Seeing it at the cinema is always both more powerful and ‘easier’ than watching it at home on video or DVD: it's far harder to summon the conditions for entrancement in a domestic space full of distractions and business.
  • To morrow morning, in the fresh and gentle breath thereof, we will rise and walke to such places, as every one shall finde fittest for them, even as already this day we have done; untill due time shall summon us hither againe, to continue our discoursive The Decameron
  • With the _f_, the tone must be there already, _before_ I have pronounced it; to pass from the _f_ to the _r_ I must summon to my aid the auxiliary vowel _oo_, in order to prevent the formation of any unvocalized interstices in the sound. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
  • We found ourselves tempted just to veg out again - and couldn't even summon up guilt about it.
  • Coché summons the group to care for Rachael, particularly coleader Juliette, who as a psychiatrist has been schooled in the use of psychotropic medications, and Marie, whose own depression has been severe. THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
  • It was unbelievable what happened - a little miracle that we summoned the strength to fight back and win from that position. The Sun
  • When, after a long wait, and little suspecting what was going to be said to me, I was received in audience, it appeared that I had been summoned to receive a polite but decided admonition against wounding the susceptibilities of my listeners by expressions which were not “good form,” and when I, unconscious of wrongdoing, asked which expression she alluded to, the unfortunate word “beslobber” was alleged; my young hearers were not Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • The West, from Rome to Britain, was called into action; the kings of Poland and Bohemia obeyed the summons of Conrad; and it is affirmed by the Greeks and Latins, that, in the passage of a strait or river, the Byzantine agents, after a tale of nine hundred thousand, desisted from the endless and formidable computation. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • He was a spiritualist medium who purportedly was able to levitate as well as summon spirits. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her attendance at court had to be secured by a witness summons and a threat of arrest.
  • His vision of modernity has been to preside over the House in a vestigial remnant of the Speaker's traditional costume, so that he resembles a schoolmaster summoned abruptly from the lunch table.
  • Summoning all her strength, she pushed herself from his lap only to feel her skirt slide over her half slip to her ankles. HEAVEN, TEXAS
  • In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect... Strange Bedfellows
  • Once he had finished them off, he summoned the waitress, looped his forefinger in the air and said, ‘Do it again.’
  • The word summons up images of late-night cram sessions, essays fleshed out with as many adjectives as can fit onto a sheet of wide-ruled paper, bibliographies that are technically works of fiction, and grades that are lower than we secretly believe they ought to be. Seanan_mcguire: Thoughts on Writing #32: Deadlines.
  • He summoned the police, the van turned out to be packed full of a terrorist's explosives, and the bombs were defused.
  • Hubert, who was the boy's housemaster, summoned a mechanic and invited Barbara to lunch.
  • Over the course of the seven years that follow, Dana Scully risks her life investigating alien abduction cases, murders committed by genetic mutants – like a man who eats livers and can stretch his body in improbable ways or a boy who is able to summon lightning or a giant flukeworm which has evolved to have a humanoid appearance – and serial killers, some of whom may be incarnations of the devil. Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • There have been delays in setting up the intelligence system and little or no improvement in inputting details of arrests or summonses on the Police National Computer.
  • She summoned super strength to pull a locked washing machine door open and grab a wet curtain to douse the flames. The Sun
  • Deep was the grief of the brethren of Three Fountains when they were summoned to attend the sacred office of demission which was to shut out A Child's Book of Saints
  • In its place shades of geometric minimalists, such as Josef Albers, were summoned.
  • Unable to swim or summon help, he soon lost consciousness and floated face down just a few metres off the beach at the resort of Los Christianos in May.
  • General Rattigan summoned reinforcements to help resist the attack.
  • In the meantime, on 25 July 2003 the respondent filed a summons seeking an order for security for costs in the sum of $80,000.
  • People traffickers steer leaky rubber boats towards the vessels and then send a distress signal to summon rescuers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mental faculty through which whims, visions, and fantasies are summoned up; imagination, especially of a whimsical or fantastic nature.
  • His Honour subsequently dismissed the summons in the Common Law Division and referred the probate proceedings to the Registrar.
  • Finally, on 30 May 1990 the local authority issued a summons in the county court seeking payment of both amounts.
  • If the work is so daring as to merit public animadversion, the magistrate summons the printer, who either stands mute or names the author.
  • The applicant is to pay the costs of the respondent of the summons on an indemnity basis.
  • It was unbelievable what happened - a little miracle that we summoned the strength to fight back and win from that position. The Sun
  • Each person served with a summons will be given six weeks before they have to appear in the Magistrates' Court.
  • No wonder I was constantly admonished by my father to summon all my meager spiritual resources and be on my best behavior.
  • Mrs Kernan, a widow and his official carer, said she had barricaded him in his bedroom before summoning relatives.
  • Volvo's latest wheeze is an optional communications package that uses telematics to summon help in an emergency.
  • He added that the generals had been summoned before a court martial after officers loyal to the Government turned them in. Times, Sunday Times
  • The 1968 allusion is not superficial: the images these girls are summoning, just as much as the van-smashers did, are pictures of revolution ? the real thing, in its romantic and large-minded soixante-huitard form. Student protests: the riot girls
  • Yesterday, my solicitor entered my bed-chamber unsummoned, a presumptuous act for which I once would have had him flayed three times about the court-yard.
  • When his courtiers and attendants had bowed their way out of the room, Valentinian summoned Faustinus into an antechamber.
  • He was summoned before the board of directors.
  • One can affect unawareness, feign indifference or summon up some other defense against such entreaties.
  • And I had summoned those genes from a seed catalog across the country, brought it, and I was planting it.
  • Edit. of certain perfumes, by burning which she could summon the Queen of the Jinn. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Mr Chirac has flatly rejected requests to accept a summons for questioning by magistrates in the travel scandal.
  • We were summoned back to the dining room where the investigation would commence, and we would both hear the evidence against each of the suspects and interpose with our own questions.
  • With runners on second and third, Showalter summoned lefty Brian Shouse from the bullpen and let him pitch.
  • He's a generous tipper and a conscientious citizen who shows up for jury duty when he's summoned.
  • Walk alongside Mosedale Beck and after a short while gaze in awe at the steep ascent summoning you.
  • The doctor was summoned to his bedside.
  • ‘I sist you to compear before the Great White Throne, and I warn you the summons shall be bloody and sudden.’ Lay Morals
  • Breath itself is melodramatized in summoning the so-called verb of being. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • The fire quickly spread to the roof and was spotted by a policeman who summoned help.
  • It was these réseaux that Joly challenged, summoning prominent witnesses, questioning them harshly, and, when they refused to answer her questions, ordering them to prison.
  • Your garnishment is the end result of a long series of letters, calls, summons and court actions on behalf of the creditor to get either of you to step up and pay what is owed or to negotiate a mutually acceptable, debt is between six months and a year old or older. The Dollar Stretcher Featured Content
  • Then, after carefully loading his briarwood, he summoned his man A Pirate of Parts
  • But the old man could not summon up the strength of mind to be quit of this succubine virago. She Stands Accused
  • Era of knowledge economy summon elementary education innovation.
  • Now some of them want out, led by a pale-faced scarred guy with a telescoping spear and a really bad temper, who's trying to find his twin sister to reassemble a magical crown that will allow him to resummon the golden army and finish off humanity. Alex Remington: Hellboy 2 Stands Out in a Weak Summer for Movies
  • Having failed to obtain the special licence required for marriage during Lent, they were summoned to appear before the consistory court in Worcester cathedral.
  • He doesn't push the envelope but this is a reminder of a virtuoso musician still able to summon his considerable strengths. The Sun
  • He who talks much of his happiness summons grief. 
  • On October 19 Tranzschel summoned Leipzig forensic expert and craniologist Wilhelm His to the excavation site. CounterPunch
  • Poor old Frank Fahey was summoned back from Spain, where he was making some useful progress on his handicap.
  • It is intriguing to know how Peel conceived such an idea and then summoned the determination to deliver on it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not for a further 25 years did Dallapiccola summon up the courage to write to Schoenberg and explain how that evening had been a defining moment in his life.
  • By then Saddam and eleven others had been "arraigned" on television in improvised proceedings of dubious meaning, which backfired politically when Saddam visibly summoned his powers of command and began to dominate the show. Ziad for the Defense
  • n the morning he did not answer the summons to breakfast, and when Mr. Thomas went to learn what the difficulty was, he found the Bishop without a gaiter.
  • Such expeditions were set on foot either by some chieftain who rode from aoul to aoul calling upon the brave to follow him; or by a summons sent abroad to the warriors of a certain district inviting them to assemble in the council ring at a given time and place for the purpose of agreeing upon an attack upon some fort, or a foray within the lines of the enemy. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
  • running into an old friend summoned up memories of her childhood
  • Summoning emergency help should an injury befall a walker would have been almost impossible.
  • Several people reported that it was only when a symptom in common with the previous acute myocardial infarction occurred that they summoned medical help.
  • A few people worked out what was going on, but couldn't summon up the interest to write in.
  • Our concern here is to emphasize the billions of small wrangles that were altering the collective thought, to summon out of the past, for an instant, an elfin clamour of now silenced voices that prepared the soil for revolution, the not-at-all-lucid propagandists at street corners, the speakers in little meeting-houses, in open spaces and during work intermissions; to recall the rustle of queer newspapers that were not quite ordinary newspapers; and the handicapped book publications that were everywhere fighting traditional and instinctive resistances. The Shape of Things to Come
  • Even the timorous Lord Mayor, who was summoned that night before the Privy Council to answer for his conduct, came back contented; observing to all his friends that he had got off very well with a reprimand, and repeating with huge satisfaction his memorable defence before the Council, ‘that such was his temerity, he thought death would have been his portion.’ Barnaby Rudge
  • The actual truth lies midway between the "evenness" of Evelyn and the "great hills" of Pepys, and to the man of Wilts that word "Plain" will ever summon up a vision of rolling downs, a short, crisp, elastic turf dotted with flocks, and broken here and there by some crested earthwork or barrow, which rears itself from the undulating Down, and breaks the skyline with its sharp outline. Stonehenge Today and Yesterday
  • No wonder I was constantly admonished by my father to summon all my meager spiritual resources and be on my best behavior.
  • He has to make it plain to them, and afterwards to the wider party, that he will heed the call if summoned. Times, Sunday Times
  • I summoned one hundred and twenty per cent disinterest, achieved by thinking of chiropody. A DARKENING STAIN
  • It took me six months to summon the courage to ask him out for a drink.
  • Summons twist: A county councillor facing assault charges is taking out a private summons against the man he allegedly assaulted.
  • As if thinking of him had summoned him, she heard the sound of his footfalls on the steps.
  • The goede vrouws were summoned before the magistrates and fined for their discourteous conduct.
  • I received a summons to the Palace from Sir Robert Fellowes, the Queen's private secretary.
  • Men were sometimes summoned during the night and they took it in turns to work on Sundays.
  • Oskar summoned up all of his saliva and spit into the hand full of powder.
  • And as though summoned by my thought, he flops down into the seat on my left.
  • He had to summon all his willpower to pass under a bridge because he would experience a crushing pressure on the skull.
  • Cla Meredith thought he had been summoned from the bullpen to face the dreadlocked slugger after Edward Mujica (0-1) had given up back-to-back singles to Rafael Furcal and Orlando Hudson with one out. USATODAY.com
  • He said this in a low voice; but the don was already summoning somebody whom he called "Rosita" from the interior of the house. The Mission of Janice Day
  • I used to get so engrossed listening to that story that I would have to be summoned back home.
  • In order to do this effectively it may be given powers equivalent to those of the High Court to summon witnesses, send for documents, administer oaths, etc.
  • To a modern audience pewter and brass collections traditionally summon up images of the country pub.
  • He casts the royal coachman - white wings and russet hackle, pheasant tippits and peacock herl - to feign the nymph and summon rainbows from a shadow world.
  • But the Wayne, Pa., resident with the flashy volleys has taken a late-is-better-than-never approach in summoning the internal reserves it takes to go deep into a major. USATODAY.com - Raymond doesn't love everybody labeling her
  • And Mehlis should not, assuming that he is "professional" and "neutral" and "apolitical"--and he is none of these things--have summoned reporters in Lebanon to reply to Husam Husam. Thursday, December 01, 2005
  • The conference was starting a few minutes late: they had only just received the summons that the Führer was ready. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • After we chatted briefly, she rang a bell and summoned Jacinta, her Spanish maid.
  • It got worse when, attempting to summon a waiter for more wine, I mistakenly outbid everyone in the raffle for a snooker cue signed by innumerable world champions.
  • Lawyers are criticised for insisting on forms and solemnities and actually taking out summonses, taking out orders, recording things properly.
  • A ranger-rogue is an expert with the bow and can summon animals, while a assassin rogue-can be a melee instrument of death using stealth to strike quickly and disappear. Flixnjoystix.com! » FlixnJoystix Presents: Flux Capacitor • Video Game Edition! Kryos Gets All Medieval And Returns To The DRAGON AGE!
  • Invincible when events ran their way, they could not summon the self-command to rally when the sky began to rain.
  • Two councillors in Birmingham have been summoned to court over their unpaid council tax. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sudden summoning of the Cabinet underlines the seriousness of the situation.
  • The judge must issue a summons .
  • Payment was resisted in Yorkshire and Durham, and the Earl of Northumberland thereupon summoned the nobility and gentry of the North to meet him at York, and told them they must obey the King's demands.
  • Long blasts are to be used to summon the people to assembly, short blasts to mobilize the military troops.
  • Before any clearer idea of where Saga is heading, it is hard to summon up too much enthusiasm. Times, Sunday Times
  • Vercingetorix knew not that Caesar, with his usual foresight, had summoned and joined to his legions a great number of horsemen from the German tribes roving over the banks of the Rhine, with which he had taken care to keep up friendly relations. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1
  • Perhaps it is the inevitable curiosity summoned by one of the most bizarre and unnerving crimes of the century.
  • Leaving the 17th green and walking up to the next tee, he summoned one last effort. Times, Sunday Times
  • Oliver Wilson, a third-year New College Law finalist, has received a decanal summons to explain why he sent what university regulations classify as an ‘abusive email’.
  • In Wuthering Heights Catherine Earnshaw's old books and scrawled, diaristic notations discovered by Heathcliff's hapless tenant afford a spiritual channeling scene in which Catherine's ghost is summoned from the beyond.
  • The thugs will then be issued with a civil summons to attend magistrates court where police will apply to the bench for banning orders.
  • And they said the mobile phone they used to summon help had only one bar of battery power left when they found a signal.
  • Have you summoned the ancient golden strength, to bind me to you once and for all time?
  • The bomb squad also was summoned to examine one other package that proved to be harmless.
  • After concluding in quickie internal investigation there was no wrongdoing, the Comité à la déontologie policière said yesterday in a media release there was grounds to believe wrongdoing occurred on the part of the officers, and has now summoned them to a hearing on the matter. Police Were Instigators in Montebello – Report Holds : Law is Cool
  • I wonder if the same parties will summon up an equal amount of dudgeon now.
  • On receiving the unexpected order, Pepe rose from his habitual attitude of recumbence, stretched himself at his leisure, yawned several times, and then obeyed the summons, saying as he went out: "What the devil fancy has the captain got into his head to send for _me_? Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora
  • Yet there were distant images, and he fought to summon them. BARRACUDA 945
  • The commercial tells the tale of the brave Kerryman who undertook a gruelling 35-mile walk in a raging blizzard to summon help for the rest of his expedition.
  • Now that Riffs is on the shop racks, he cannot bring himself to summon up any more enthusiasm.
  • Her attendance at court had to be secured by a witness summons and a threat of arrest.
  • I should let its few small offences go unsummoned and unreproached. Chapters from My Autobiography
  • Gods of the Junii, with this offering I ask you to summonTyche, Megaera, and Nemesis so that they may witness this curse. More champagne socialist New Labour sleaze: Jacqui Smith Home Sec & expenses fiddler.
  • The veteran rockers summon the American singer once again to be their Freddie for the night. Times, Sunday Times
  • Father's embassade to Cambray, and then his summons to Woodstock. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
  • The priest then did some more incanting, which led to a reversal of the long howl that had summoned forth the gods and now, in reverse, sent them back to their places, and ended the ceremony.
  • It was unbelievable what happened - a little miracle that we summoned the strength to fight back and win from that position. The Sun
  • The worst the sledger need fear is that his opponent will respond with words more vile than he can summon. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's a wonderful cover shot to the 1958 album Legrand Jazz, with pianist-composer Michel Legrand wearing an expression of insouciant expectation, Gauloise at the corner of his mouth, indolently summoning invisible sidemen to action. This week's new live music
  • Then again, it would be hard to summon much tenderness for this painting by one of those pale young Brits of equine features and unvirile demeanor.
  • The word summons up some outdated, maternal plea - Couldn't you wear a skirt just this once?
  • He summoned the Guard, but, despite the carnage, he didn't even consider turning his unchancy guests out.
  • He could hardly summon the strength to stand up.
  • The count had only reached four before the referee decided he had seen enough and summoned immediate medical attention.
  • The summons was heard in chambers but judgment was given in open court at the request of the parties.
  • Now _calling_ does not mean 'avocation' or 'employment,' as I perhaps need scarcely explain, but the divine fact of our having been summoned by Him to be His. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
  • Yucun summoned the plaintiff for questioning.
  • He was summoned before the committee and fined for dobbing on a workmate but refused to pay.
  • But in February, 1991, he received a summons to appear before magistrates on an allegation that he owed £269.40.
  • In the end we have to summon my mother, who comes charging down Maryhill Road bearing cash, credit cards and that look women get when they are reminded that even 35-year-olds still need their mammy.
  • In the original trial, a footwear expert had been summoned to determine whether a shoeprint found at the crime scene could have been produced by a pair of sneakers found at the defendant's home. Unreasonable Doubt
  • From the apex of its gambrel roof rose a tall, pointed cupola, the bell it once housed for summoning the students long gone. AMAGANSETT
  • Delving into the mystical aspect of Ninjitsu, the Ninja summons a perfect replica of her likeness in order to confuse her enemies.
  • I was duly summoned to the front row of the upper circle to watch my niece take her very first faltering steps towards an Equity card.
  • And these are not summary cases, but are conducted with all the preparation made in a chancilleria of España; and as the ministers of justice and their assistants are so many (and as there are so many alguazils, attorneys, secretaries, reporters, summoners, notaries, clerks, and servants of all these -- _Madrid MS. _), and the The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
  • The billionaire broadcaster was ordered to do jury duty after getting out of two previous summonses by citing conflicts with her work schedule.
  • He also dodged a summons that was hand delivered by bailiffs after persuading a woman to pretend that he no longer lived at his address. Times, Sunday Times
  • The musicians, with biniou and hautboy, went round to summon the guests. Brittany & Its Byways
  • Last August I was summoned to our provincial headquarters where I was given a 14-page communication from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
  • M. de Thou, hearing them summon the criminal recorder of the presidial of The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • The modern agriculture already said goodbye to the slash-and-burn cultivation, the self-sufficient age, the time powerful pulse is summoning the informationization making agriculture.
  • But while you're tossing the pigskin around, maybe you should explain to a son that the measure of a man is more than the ability to summon or endure violence.
  • One is the former one of an application for extension of time for service of the summons - I do not apprehend it will be opposed.
  • A summoner to Canterbury his way did trot, And now in Hell his soul will rot. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • Leaving the 17th green and walking up to the next tee, he summoned one last effort. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
  • The next day one of the brothers summoned everyone in Croglin Grange to the crypt and opened the vault.
  • A half dozen of the most senior American national security officials were summoned to a hurriedly called late-night emergency meeting in the White House Situation Room. The Prize
  • English ships were summoned to bring reinforcements to the siege and to blockade the port from the sea. Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
  • He summoned up childhood memories and a long love for a part of his musical heritage in a piece called Blues Suite.
  • It happens that the crude birth rate, at 13. 5*, is the lowest in a century (so basically it's the lowest ever in the US) -- and that's making headlines and summoning images of a babyless, unstable future. Elizabeth Gregory: Post-Fertile Boomers Push the Birth Rate Drop
  • He therefore refused to recognize the Anglo-Portuguese treaty and summoned an international conference to Berlin to settle the African question once and for all.
  • He had to summon the energy to finish the race.
  • In 2003, Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson had summoned representatives of three Rubbertown plants that emitted butadiene to his office, and the companies — American Synthetic Rubber, Zeon and Rohm and Haas — soon announced they would voluntarily reduce their emissions. Cooperation helped Louisville clean up air
  • His courtiers have been summoned but these first two hours are taken up with swimming. Times, Sunday Times
  • So, our community honors our blessed ancestors; those people summon up the evil spirits of the unquiet dead.
  • He complied of course, and stood shading his haggard face in the unwonted sunlight of the great window, looking as wan and unearthly as if he had been summoned from the grave.
  • He'll fight tooth and nail to keep you safe: chasing down suspects, finding hidden narcotics — even summoning the willpower to avoid tasty treats when in hot pursuit.

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