How to Use convocation in a Sentence

convocation

noun

• They called for the immediate convocation of the council.
• The groups are known as a convocation, an aerie, even a congress.
  — Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
• The convocation was held in one of the school’s athletic centers.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• That fall, the Black student groups organized a walkout of the convocation in protest.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021
• At Richardson’s back-to-school convocation last week, Jenkins once again found the spotlight.
  — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
• The Armory retreat, the biggest of these convocations so far, and the first that was partly open to the public, was about sound.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Dec. 2019
• Staff members will also put together a video about her for the superintendent's convocation at the start of the next school year.
  — Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 6 June 2018
• Students broke out in protest and chants before James Comey began his convocation speech on Friday.
  — Essence.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• Wide-net interreligious convocations seem to traditionalists to put their faiths on par with that of a shaman who prays to mountain spirits.
  — Gordon Mehler, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• The steady tempo of Morrison’s performance is friendly as a church convocation.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Nov. 2023
• Comey was jeered during his September convocation speech, as a group of demonstrators chanted from the audience.
  — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
• Last summer, Comey agreed to give a convocation speech and series of lectures at Howard University.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
• His competitive streak showed in a convocation address last July to students in Pakistan.
  — Nicolas Parasie, WSJ, 10 June 2018
• Teacher of the Year Victoria Shears pointed out during the district’s convocation last week.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Dragga, who’s somewhere north of 65, and an Englishman named David Macleod have been to every convocation.
  — Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2022
• Among the students who staged a protest during convocation was an aspiring actor and director named Chadwick Boseman.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2022
• Future 2 Schools were among several brief announcements at a beginning-of-the-year teachers' convocation.
  — Nusaiba Mizan, Houston Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2026
• Allen Independent School District, a suburb north of Dallas, held its convocation with teachers and staff this week to kick off the new school year.
  — Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2021
• At a convocation address at Howard University on Friday, Comey got a reminder.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Sep. 2017
• The week kicks off with convocation, typically the least formal event, where PNMs can get to know the different sororities.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• Balegh told the participants that the clerics were not in favor of foreign troops in Afghanistan and that the scholars should work for a grander convocation of religious figures to find a way for ending the conflict.
  — Sayed Salahuddin, Washington Post, 4 June 2018
• The service will be followed at 6 by the academic procession, Evensong and convocation address by Curry.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2017
• In fall 2015, members of the student union’s activism work interrupted the freshman convocation in protest of the newly armed officers.
  — oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2020
• The victims were taken to a hospital for treatment after gunfire rang out near the convocation center, according to New Orleans police.
  — al, 31 May 2022
• Putting all of this together gives the resulting convocation some depth, and reminds us that there is a link between research and eventual production or deployment of technology.
  — John Werner, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• The walk ended at the Chapel of the Resurrection with a convocation celebrating the value of humanity.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2023
• At North Royalton City Schools’ convocation, teachers and staff were invited to an opening day breakfast and meeting.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
• In Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, marquesinas are centers of convocation, where family and friends gather to drink, dance and talk.
  — Isabelia Herrera, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• Granda said he's been on vacation with the Falwells in the past, flown on Liberty's private jet and has pictures with the family at football and hockey games, touring the campus with guest speakers and at convocation.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2020
• Multigenerational convocations among Central Asian thinkers remain exceptionally rare.
  — Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026