invocation

Example Sentences

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“It is far from clear,” Lederman writes, that any such obstruction of federal law has occurred in Chicago that would warrant the act’s invocation.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2025

Forty-plus years later, I regularly attend the monthly town council meeting in our adopted hometown of Fries, in southwest Virginia, and my favorite part is the opening invocation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

I love how the invocation sets a calm, cooperative, even loving tone at a time when too many civic gatherings in this country are torn by ill will, short tempers, sometimes violence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The ovation had the character not of high-pitched cheering but of an involuntary low-pitched invocation of wonderment, even disbelief.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

In a great slow gesture he stretched out his arms, the gesture of welcome that opens an invocation.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin