Example Sentences

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A growing number of businesses in tech, banking and sales have been summoning workers back to the office in recent weeks.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2022

Governments across Africa, as well as the African Union, have been summoning Chinese ambassadors for remonstrations about the treatment of their citizens.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2020

There are a lot of great Steves I might have been summoning up — McQueen, Hawking, Sondheim.

From New York Times • May 30, 2019

The blushing beauty of the Larghetto was haunted by Barenboim’s light keyboard touch and empyrean mood: he could have been summoning ghosts.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 3, 2017

Again he uttered wild cries; he might have been summoning unseen powers to his aid.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph