How to Use summon in a Sentence

summon

verb

• The queen summoned him back to the palace.
• But James McArthur was summoned and got the final five outs for the save.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2024
• That was really the best the Bears could summon on fourth-and-goal from the 1?
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2024
• For the sake of your own health, summon the strength to assert yourself.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2024
• Leaders will just have to summon the guts to enable it.
  — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• Pascua and the deputy left Serna in her cell and did not summon help.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
• 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
• It’s said that the board of directors will summon him any day now.
  — Hernan Diaz, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• Ubers are easy to summon, as are taxis via the European app Freenow.
  — Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
• Or will the Hoosiers, who have lost four games to teams ranked in the top 10 at the time, summon the defensive acumen to slow them down?
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2021
• Edson Madeira was struggling to summon the right words.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2021
• The families of some of them were summoned and threatened.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
• But Uvalde could summon the resilience to move forward.
  — New York Times, 4 June 2022
• On All Hallow’s Eve, when the moon is round, a virgin will summon us from under the ground.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 9 June 2022
• Players will also be able to summon spirits from the ashes of the dead to help them in fights.
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2021
• Each sunbed has a wooden table with a buzzer to summon someone to bring you food and drinks.
  — Adrienne Wyper, The Week Uk, theweek, 14 Aug. 2024
• To save her and embrace his true self, Benjamin must summon all his courage.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 26 June 2024
• These portraits remind us, too, of the kind of bravery humans need to summon when the stakes are high.
  — Time, 20 Dec. 2022
• But, from any pile of ashes, a phoenix can rise if the right people can figure out how to summon it.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
• Rowell said that the act of telling ghost stories can seem to summon the spirits themselves.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Given the state of the labor market—this time in favor of workers—summon up courage and go ask for the raise.
  — Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo, WSJ, 21 May 2022
• 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
• But in an attempt to revive the appeal, the brothers summon the actual Jon Hamm to weigh in on the progress.
  — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2022
• That being said, Hemsworth isn’t the only Norse god who can summon a Mjölnir.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 July 2022
• 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
• And yes, mashing the pedal to the firewall will summon the whole powertrain’s fury in a pinch … but that defeats the purpose of trying to go green.
  — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2025
• Around the 80th minute, with the game locked at 0-0 and Young Boys proving considerably more durable than many had foreseen, Celtic’s fans had summoned a wall of noise.
  — Michael Walker, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 13 Feb 2025