How to Use convocation in a Sentence

convocation

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  • They called for the immediate convocation of the council.
  • The event begins at 7 p.m. in the church's convocation center and is open to the public.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The groups are known as a convocation, an aerie, even a congress.
    — Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Ms. Brendt, 32, had found out about the convocation on the radio while driving to work.
    — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 14 June 2017
  • The Armory retreat, the biggest of these convocations so far, and the first that was partly open to the public, was about sound.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The convocation was held in one of the school’s athletic centers.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • That fall, the Black student groups organized a walkout of the convocation in protest.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021
  • No word yet on what Comey will say during Howard's convocation on Sept. 22.
    — Colleen Shalby, latimes.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Marchers are scheduled to gather in Daley Plaza at 11 a.m. Faith leaders will lead the group in a convocation.
    — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
  • At Richardson’s back-to-school convocation last week, Jenkins once again found the spotlight.
    — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Haygood will be speaking at the school's fall convocation.
    — Fox News, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Students broke out in protest and chants before James Comey began his convocation speech on Friday.
    — Essence.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Staff members will also put together a video about her for the superintendent's convocation at the start of the next school year.
    — Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 6 June 2018
  • Allen Independent School District, a suburb north of Dallas, held its convocation with teachers and staff this week to kick off the new school year.
    — Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Dragga, who’s somewhere north of 65, and an Englishman named David Macleod have been to every convocation.
    — Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The convocation was to be virtual, because of the pandemic.
    — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 4 July 2022
  • Balegh told the participants that the clerics were not in favor of foreign troops in Afghanistan and that the scholars should work for a grander convocation of religious figures to find a way for ending the conflict.
    — Sayed Salahuddin, Washington Post, 4 June 2018
  • Last summer, Comey agreed to give a convocation speech and series of lectures at Howard University.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Teacher of the Year Victoria Shears pointed out during the district’s convocation last week.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The agency is governed by an annual convocation of the health ministers of all U.N. countries, and its role is only to offer advice.
    — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The week kicks off with convocation, typically the least formal event, where PNMs can get to know the different sororities.
    — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
  • In fall 2015, members of the student union’s activism work interrupted the freshman convocation in protest of the newly armed officers.
    — oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2020
  • But photos and links to a livestream of his address and convocation ceremony at Notre Dame, as well as other services and events during the patriarch’s trip, will be available at www.goarch.org/EPvisit2021.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • First, there was a trip across town, to a U.N. convocation on coffee sustainability, with such panelists as the economist Jeffrey Sachs.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The walk ended at the Chapel of the Resurrection with a convocation celebrating the value of humanity.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Wide-net interreligious convocations seem to traditionalists to put their faiths on par with that of a shaman who prays to mountain spirits.
    — Gordon Mehler, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Comey was jeered during his September convocation speech, as a group of demonstrators chanted from the audience.
    — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The steady tempo of Morrison’s performance is friendly as a church convocation.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 Nov. 2023
  • At North Royalton City Schools’ convocation, teachers and staff were invited to an opening day breakfast and meeting.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, marquesinas are centers of convocation, where family and friends gather to drink, dance and talk.
    — Isabelia Herrera, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021

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