call forth
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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There were acrobats and athletes; there was H.E.R. strutting mid-stage making her guitar growl as if you call forth Prince’s spirit.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2024
“Such Kindness” is an astonishing novel about all these feelings, and the actions they call forth when we pay attention.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2023
Johnson urged his audience to call forth the "can-do Promethean spirit that will get us out of this mess".
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2022
Kushner’s ability to call forth those family quarrels within liberalism — their endlessness, their passion — may ultimately be what marks him as a great New York voice.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021
It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval—and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances which call forth a woman’s sedulous attention.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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