How to Use summon in a Sentence

summon

verb
Definition of summonnext
Synonyms for summonnext
  • But James McArthur was summoned and got the final five outs for the save.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2024
  • One day, Wilson summoned Vail to meet with him, but wouldn’t say why.
    — Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The simplest way to gain lore is to summon glimmers to go questing.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • To save her and embrace his true self, Benjamin must summon all his courage.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 26 June 2024
  • The Crumbleys were summoned to school for a meeting about the drawing but didn’t take Ethan home.
    — Ed White, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Wilks, who coached from the coaches’ booth, was summoned to the sideline during the 49ers sideline after the bye week and coached there for the rest of the season.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • In the other, pressing a button on your smartphone to summon a car.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Tatum summons me in late March, through a mutual friend.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2023
  • Aseel and 9-year-old Mays were summoned to metal trailers.
    — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • But as much as the teens like hanging out there, neither could summon much support for the curfew.
    — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 1 June 2024
  • Skeeter spent the previous two years on Will Hardy’s staff until Lee summoned him.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2024
  • Darby quietly waits in the back of a small crowd until she’s summoned to the lectern to read from her own true-crime memoir.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • This is my go-to when things are feeling tough and motivation is hard to summon.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Sensing calamity, Kirkpatrick had summoned Rothberg to the farm in May.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Early in Trump’s remarks, the speech took an extended detour when Trump summoned Arpaio to the stage.
    — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2024
  • Franco's no-show could be because his current lawyers may not have been summoned for the meeting.
    — CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The massacre led to a local outcry, and Raziq was summoned to Kabul.
    — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • They were summoned to the school the morning of the shooting to discuss his disturbing behavior.
    — Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • But in late May 2022, a four-alarm fire broke out, summoning crews from six different counties to control the blaze.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Neither party seems likely to summon the kind of war-on-crime coalition that Roosevelt’s Democrats secured in the 1930s.
    — Anthony Gregory / Made By History, TIME, 23 July 2024
  • Ringing the doorbell there, Carter summoned the commander, who filled in Gandhi on the scourge of fentanyl.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Bennett was summoned as a witness to a 2013 shooting at her apartment.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 11 June 2024
  • On June 4, a caller summoned officers to the 400 block of North Heliotrope Drive to report a robbery.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • The parents were summoned to the counselor's office for a meeting, and left to return to their jobs, promising to get their son help within 48 hours.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The dragon balls, when collected, can summon Shen Long, a divine dragon that can grant any wish.
    — Mai Nishiyama, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Ferguson was then summoned to end the game, striking out Jake Cronenworth for his first save in five years.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2023
  • Scott Forstall, then Apple’s head of software, pushed an iPhone button to summon Siri and prodded it with questions.
    — Karen Weise, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Police and customs officials were summoned to the hangar.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Roku makes everything simple, from setting up to finding your favorite streaming apps and even summoning the remote from under the dog dish.
    — Ryan Waniata, WIRED, 17 July 2024

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