How to Use invocation in a Sentence

invocation

noun

• They began the meeting with an invocation.
• The poem begins with an invocation of the Muses.
• Ghost Trees will kick off each evening with a short jazz set and an invocation.
  — Helen Schwab, charlotteobserver, 28 Sep. 2017
• Here is our usual invocation from the Prayer of St. Brigid.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 Mar. 2018
• But there were just as many invocations of combat as of faith.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
• But the invocation of the Pottery Barn rule in relation to Afghanistan doesn’t make sense.
  — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2021
• Flores said that Johnson was asked during the month of May to give the invocation.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 17 June 2023
• Their constant invocation of coups tends to be a smokescreen for their own flouting of the rules.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Critics lampooned the president for the gaffe, and some called for the invocation of the 25th Amendment.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2024
• One of its most famous invocations is from the Gospel of John, in the instance of Jesus raising Lazarus from a tomb.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• The methods of invocation, the forms of the circles, the vestments, even the incenses have changed little, if at all.
  — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Of course, this mentality has been around a long time (as the invocation of the Bronze Age suggests).
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 July 2023
• So what may be a useful lens through which to see Biden’s invocation of fascism?
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• In Rhodes’s view, such an invocation would have given his group legal cause to act.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
• This might be a fair enough expression of love and devotion, but the world has changed since its first invocation.
  — Sean Lavery, The New Yorker, 27 June 2019
• The invocation of Walker Evans is apt, though, in a different way.
  — Scott Borchert, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2022
• As the invocation of sultans suggests, this is an exploration of the highest-end items, made for the palaces of the privileged.
  — Ted Loos, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2023
• Papa John's invocation of the NFL was more head-scratching.
  — James Briggs, Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2017
• Arguably, the most beautiful moment in the entire show — Kit and Fiona’s wedding – arose from the invocation of the divine.
  — refinery29.com, 16 May 2018
• At first, this invocation of a Founding Father seems rather grandiose.
  — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2020
• Epic poems like Hesiod’s Theogony, the Odyssey and the Iliad all begin with some sort of invocation to a goddess or muse.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
• The governor’s invocation clears the way for the state fire marshal to help local firefighters in battling the blaze.
  — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2021
• But what is to be made of this invocation of slavery offered during my own lifetime?
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
• The event started with an interfaith invocation from the Imam and Rabbi.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
• The invocation of America’s soul is at the heart of nearly every major Biden speech.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
• To take the easy part first, Kaepernick’s invocation of Trump is just an atmospheric.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
• First came an invocation, spoken over the hushed chords of organ music.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
• Such invocations of doom have yet to deter Ukraine’s allies.
  — Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2023
• The sites are angry and mournful: their invocations of peace, justice, and freedom are not banal.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• Trump has forever been a jock’s politician, what with his invocation of locker-room talk and his swaggering refusal to countenance defeat.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024