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
• To lips long parching, next to mine, And summon them to drink.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• For the sake of your own health, summon the strength to assert yourself.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2024
• The West may summon the nerve to crack down hard on Mr. Lukashenko over the Ryanair hijacking.
  — Garry Kasparov, WSJ, 1 June 2021
• 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
• Fixed an issue where Pals would not work if summoned too close to a tree.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The team summons Baltazar and Chipembere, who confirm that it was kept near the urn.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025
• 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
• And not just any Grisha, but a Sun Summoner, one with the power to summon the sun.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 23 Apr. 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
• Get down on thy knees and pray like your life dependeth upon it, or use the phone, and summon forth The Plumber.
  — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 6 May 2021
• 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
• The film opens on a peasant couple summoning their son from a farm field.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• 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 speaker here is one of those men — summoning his courage in the face of terror, steeling himself for the unimaginable.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Mar 2025