How to Use invocation in a Sentence

invocation

noun

• They began the meeting with an invocation.
• The poem begins with an invocation of the Muses.
• But there were just as many invocations of combat as of faith.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
• Ghost Trees will kick off each evening with a short jazz set and an invocation.
  — Helen Schwab, charlotteobserver, 28 Sep. 2017
• The play’s clearly still the thing, but its invocations here seem facile in the face of a father’s grief.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025
• Their constant invocation of coups tends to be a smokescreen for their own flouting of the rules.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• So what may be a useful lens through which to see Biden’s invocation of fascism?
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• In Rhodes’s view, such an invocation would have given his group legal cause to act.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
• First came an invocation, spoken over the hushed chords of organ music.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
• But what is to be made of this invocation of slavery offered during my own lifetime?
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
• This might be a fair enough expression of love and devotion, but the world has changed since its first invocation.
  — Sean Lavery, The New Yorker, 27 June 2019
• And the court said by repeating his intention not to talk, that's not an invocation of the right to remain silent.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026
• The invocation of Putin seemed to set the massage therapist off.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
• At first, this invocation of a Founding Father seems rather grandiose.
  — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2020
• And what that often means in the United States is some kind of invocation of the frontier.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2025
• Viewers might sense a grand statement being made by the invocation of this famous painting.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
• Flores said that Johnson was asked during the month of May to give the invocation.
  — John Sharp | [email protected], al, 17 June 2023
• Shot in only one day and clocking in around eight minutes, the final scene feels as much like a seance or invocation as a piece of drama.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
• The invocation of Walker Evans is apt, though, in a different way.
  — Scott Borchert, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2022
• The methods of invocation, the forms of the circles, the vestments, even the incenses have changed little, if at all.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• The invocation appears like a litany after every mass shooting — and the backlash is just as inevitable.
  — Peter Smith, Twin Cities, 30 Aug. 2025
• The case for impeachment seems to me, at this point, far less salient than the invocation of the 25th Amendment.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
• Her most recent and most reckless invocations of the darkest evil of the 20th century seem to dare it to boil over.
  — Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
• Of course, this mentality has been around a long time (as the invocation of the Bronze Age suggests).
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 July 2023
• As the invocation of sultans suggests, this is an exploration of the highest-end items, made for the palaces of the privileged.
  — Ted Loos, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2023
• The governor’s invocation clears the way for the state fire marshal to help local firefighters in battling the blaze.
  — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2021
• Prior to start of each year’s race, Smith takes to the podium to offer a tribute to veterans and give the invocation.
  — AL.com, 26 May 2017
• But the invocation of the Pottery Barn rule in relation to Afghanistan doesn’t make sense.
  — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2021
• The invocation of America’s soul is at the heart of nearly every major Biden speech.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
• Why the invocations of Tubman, the readings of Du Bois, the visits from Hamer?
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026