How to Use invoke in a Sentence

invoke

verb

• The suspect invoked his right to an attorney.
• She invoked history to prove her point.
• He invoked the memory of his predecessor.
• He invoked his Fifth Amendment privileges.
• As the cloves slip their skins, the garlic in the air invokes the past.
  — Jordan P. Hickey, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2024
• When Fallbrook failed to score in the top of the fifth, the mercy rule was invoked.
  — Joe Naiman, Ramona Sentinel, 4 May 2017
• But in the evening, Trump invoked Mueller by name on Twitter for the first time.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Mar. 2018
• Wolf said of the language in the lease that until now hasn’t been invoked.
  — Ted Slowik, Daily Southtown, 29 May 2018
• Burn a Yule log to push aside dark shadows and invoke the light of truth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• The laws involved are the same as any landlord would invoke.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 14 May 2021
• The faint gray lines are shaped to invoke the imagery of the grain of the sword and represent the team’s toughness on the court.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020
• If this is the case, the plaintiffs would not be able to invoke a First Amendment right.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2017
• And that tweet invoked some very strong opinions from fans, some nice and some not so nice.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
• Inevitably, the spirit of the London Blitz has been invoked.
  — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2020
• The tribes said the items invoke the spirit of their ancestors and were taken in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2022
• The indictment was the first in the state to invoke a statute that comingled terrorism and hate crimes.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2022
• Jordan’s killer tried to invoke a stand-your-ground defense in the trial.
  — Lucy McBath, Cosmopolitan, 23 June 2017
• Gone was the circle of bricks inlaid to invoke the round table.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• Stockings hung on the hearth always invokes a homey feel.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2023
• The truck-is-your-home judge likewise invoked the Eighth Amendment.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 7 Mar. 2018
• Both answers invoke the same response: Why the heck not?
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• And some of those screams happened to invoke the name of another golfer.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 19 June 2021
• In the past year, researchers invoked the blobs to solve two long-standing puzzles there.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Jan. 2020
• The admonition was invoked in just six of the 69 cases.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, azcentral, 31 July 2019
• The issue was said to have occurred five times in the past, invoking the same reaction from the man.
  — Andy Attina / Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 9 May 2018
• The umpires did not invoke the infield-fly rule, and the Rangers took advantage.
  — Steve Kroner, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Sep. 2021
• Chauvin wasn't the only one to invoke the Fifth Amendment.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2021
• To covet beauty was to invoke desire, and the act of wanting was the root of all suffering.
  — Brandon Presser, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2023
• The Browns would have been on stronger legal ground to invoke that type of language if the league had suspended Watson.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
• The ’80s were awash in teen stories and maybe the show is using music from that era to invoke all those tropes in order to better subvert them.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024