summon
verb (used with object)
to call upon to do something specified.
summoning
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present participleof summon.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Listening to Xiu Xiu’s “Eraserhead” on a hot and stormy Friday afternoon is an atavistic summoning of the many gifts that David Lynch left us to remember him by.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
At Ojai, Lewis wistfully performed the solo prelude off in Libbey Park shrubbery as if a dallying forest spirit summoning ghosts of festivals past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Leicester will be summoning the spirit that flattened Saints 41-17 in the reverse fixture a month ago.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
“When he’s on,” the late critic Stanley Crouch wrote, he “seems immense, summoning the entire history of jazz, capable of blowing a hole through a wall.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
She looked everywhere for him, summoning all her senses, but her mother’s elbow in her ribs brought her back to the pressing matter of the ceremony.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
