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How to use summon in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Summon means to call people together; to convene; to convoke. Example: “You better pay off the parking summon tomorrow before you kena interest on it.”

Examples of summon by meaning

verbTo call people together; to convene; to convoke.

  • Silence is primary, summoning presence to itself; so it's a connection to the realm of origin.2007, John Zerzan, Silence

verbTo ask someone to come; to send for.

  • It was in Jih-k’a-tse that he was summoned to meet the country’s second-highest religious authority, the Panchen Lama, who turned out to be only 11 years old.1995, Explorers & Discoverers, volume 2, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 753

verbTo order (goods) and have delivered.

  • You can summon groceries, alcohol and medicines to your home: chips and vodka on New Year’s Eve, say, and then aspirin on New Year’s Day.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian

verbTo call a resource by magic.

  • “Why won't you teach me to summon water?2010, Kay Hooper, The Wizard of Seattle, Fanfare, →ISBN

nounCall, command, order.

  • The deceased was 58 years of age, was the picture of health even five or six hours prior to his death, when suddenly the grim messenger came with a summon from a Higher Tribunal, calling him to duties above.quoted in 2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1898-1913 (page 172)

nounA fine; a fee or monetary penalty incurred for breaking the law; usually for a minor offence such as a traffic...

  • You better pay off the parking summon tomorrow before you kena interest on it.

verbTo impose such a fine or penalty, or to issue a notice thereof.

  • The police summoned the driver for speeding.
  • They kena summoned for littering.

More sentences with summon

  • I summoned the waiter, paid the check, and hurried to leave.From the entry check
  • I summoned the waiter, paid the cheque, and hurried to leave.From the entry cheque
  • He summoned the waiter with a clap.From the entry clap
  • He was peremptorily summoned to see the commanding officer.From the entry peremptorily
  • He was summoned to come before the king.From the entry come before
  • I summoned up all my remaining willpower.From the entry summon up
  • I’d taken comfort in statistics, summoned faith in the engineers and assembly workers, the pilots, the system.2025 March 11, Lauren Smiley, “The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for Answers. Fatal crashes. A…. From the entry they
  • I can barely summon a smile when I let him in.2022 April 26, Ray Stoeve, Arden Grey, Abrams, →ISBN. From the entry manniversary
  • The other stereotype, summoned in his case by the silver bell, is – of course – Jeeves.2018, John Sutherland, The Good Brexiteer’s Guide to English Lit, Reaktion Books, →ISBN. From the entry factota
  • Well, I had one, but he was summoned to provide his time elsewhere.2017, L. Marie, “Lex Bailey”, in When Loyalty Is Lost, [United States]: Natavia Presents, →ISBN. From the entry US of America
  • Certain people, researchers have discovered, can't summon up mental images—it's as if their mind's eye is blind.2015 June 22, Carl Zimmer, “Picture this? Some just can’t”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry aphantasia
  • A mundane company had hired him to summon up a cecaelia demon.2013, Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (And Who You’re Not Officially Dating Anyway)…. From the entry cecaelia
  • Did he remember summoning Democrats to walk the plank for this?2009, Taylor Branch, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry walk the plank
  • McDuffie summoned a subtle glow, which was well matched by flute and clarinet soloists.2007 January 30, Steve Smith, “A Debut and a Fervent Violinist”, in New York Times. From the entry canzonetta
  • Latham, under Medicare Gold, will summon teams of nurses to gently massage your shagger's back.2004 October 2, Richard Glover, Sydney Morning Herald. From the entry shagger's back
  • Aclang all over the city and not to summon the faithful.2001, Michael Lynch, The Casinghead Company, Authors Choice Press, →ISBN, page 439. From the entry aclang
  • She frantically summoned the flight attendant and gasped, “Whifty, I'm feeling whifty.”2001, Barbara Rollin, Ask!, →ISBN. From the entry whifty
  • The Factory may not be tapped to increase its own toughness if it suffers from summoning sickness.1997, George H. Baxter, Baxter on Magic: A Guide to Proper Playing Techniques for Magic: The Gathering, page 22. From the entry summoning sickness
  • It is my intention to summon forth all manner of banshee, bugaboo and bogybeast.1994, Robert Rankin, Raiders of the Lost Car Park, page 43. From the entry pandemoniac
  • I can’t summon up King Bran and ask him to finger your she-demon for you.1994, Dafydd ab Hugh, Far Beyond the Wave (Arthur War Lord; book two), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 278. From the entry necromanceress
  • He summoned all the opara (the first sons) of each family in the clan.1991, John E. Eberegbulam Njoku, Short Stories of the Traditional People of Nigeria, →ISBN. From the entry opara
  • They had summoned “the majority” to their sordid little unification conference in Brussels.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, pages 173–74. From the entry Jaurès
  • He gave orders for his family to be summoned.) (3) Impersonal (unspecified) volition (e.g.1988, Anna Wierzbicka, “FOR TO versus TO”, in The Semantics of Grammar (Studies in Language Companion Series; 18), Amsterdam…. From the entry volition
  • Summoning all my courage, I touched and kissed a womyn for the first time.1980, Susan J Wolfe, Julia Penelope, The coming out stories. From the entry womyn
  • I summon my best friend, Mayva, who says, "You'd better snap it up."1975 September 2, Erma Bombeck, “Only a hostess knows true loneliness”, in Miami News, retrieved 29 Aug 2011, page 1B. From the entry snap it up
  • From some undreamed-of reservoir my body summoned up a gravity tank of incalescent libido.1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Mordecais' Endgame (Don't Point That Thing at Me), page 119. From the entry incalescent
  • A second bell interrupted the meal, and a prefect summoned the table-head to the prefects' table.1965, A. C. V. B. Tetteh-Lartey, chapter 4, in The Schooldays of Shango Solomon, page 33. From the entry table head
  • Jack and Stephen, treading the boards together in Dublin, could not be summoned so fast.1957, Lillian de la Torre, “The Tragic Muse”, in The Actress; being the Story of Sarah Siddons […], Edinburgh; New York, N.Y.: Thomas…. From the entry tread the boards
  • He summoned the guilty ones before him one by one, but they flatly refused to come.1903–1909, “Extracto de una carta (Extract of a letter from the Indies)”, in Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, editors, The…. From the entry information
  • Old Martin yells at the cloud, tries to summon Cthulhu.2020 August 4, Cedric Voets, “George R.R. Martin Got Into Some Racist Trouble At The Hugo Awards”, in Cracked.com, archived from the…. From the entry yell at the cloud
  • I summon all my strength to make the shapes.2016, Danny Scheinmann, The Half Life of Joshua Jones, London: Unbound, →ISBN, page 262. From the entry scrape
  • “In that stone, Paguta has contained a powerful ifrit, but it can only be summoned once every hundred years.”2016 July 11, Kyle More, “TripTank 2025” (9:02 from the start), in TripTank, season 2, episode 14, spoken by Clarine (Lauren Lapkus). From the entry ifrit

Meaning of summon

  1. verb To call people together; to convene; to convoke.
  2. verb To ask someone to come; to send for.
  3. verb To order (goods) and have delivered.

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Questions about summon in a sentence

How do you use summon in a sentence?
Summon is used as a verb and noun. For example: “You better pay off the parking summon tomorrow before you kena interest on it.”
What is a short sentence with summon?
“They kena summoned for littering.”
What does summon mean?
Summon means to call people together; to convene; to convoke.

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