summons
Example Sentences
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He summons a gentler touch to pay tribute to the vastness of Shakespeare’s empathy.
There by the bed lay my prison bag, packed and ready as it had been since the summons from the chief of police.
From Literature
‘In the end,’ he whispered, ‘he summons -an elemental.’
From Literature
Of those, just 9% resulted in someone being charged or summonsed.
From BBC
Dawud Burke, D4vd's father, fought against the summons in a Texas court, and in doing so included portions of material from the California case that had not been previously available to the public.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
