How to Use summon in a Sentence

summon

verb

• The queen summoned him back to the palace.
• Even taxis used to be summoned with a street hail and paid with cash.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• Lorch summoned him to his office.
  — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
• Dunk ’em into sour cream to summon Hanukkah any time of year.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 June 2025
• That singular act summoned a dark cloud that parked above us.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 30 May 2026
• To lips long parching, next to mine, And summon them to drink.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• Besides, most of us were summoned there by our phones anyway.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
• Fixed an issue where Pals would not work if summoned too close to a tree.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
• For the sake of your own health, summon the strength to assert yourself.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2024
• As is so often the case, planes flying over couldn’t be summoned.
  — Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
• There is enough magic here to summon wild things even for those who are snug indoors.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• Beeks was summoned precisely for that lefty-on-lefty matchup.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026
• Ellen is about to go out for a ride when she’s summoned to the Great Hall.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 12 Sep. 2025
• Knights summoned to England for vengeance.
  — James Horncastle, New York Times, 10 June 2026
• Khatami summoned me and heard my warning.
  — Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
• The simplest way to gain lore is to summon glimmers to go questing.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Pascua and the deputy left Serna in her cell and did not summon help.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
• The film opens on a peasant couple summoning their son from a farm field.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• Before she was slated to leave, her father summoned her to his study.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• First responders were summoned to the scene.
  — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
• Police called the man and summoned him to the police station.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 29 May 2020
• To save her and embrace his true self, Benjamin must summon all his courage.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 26 June 2024
• Each sunbed has a wooden table with a buzzer to summon someone to bring you food and drinks.
  — Adrienne Wyper, The Week Uk, theweek, 14 Aug. 2024
• One day, Wilson summoned Vail to meet with him, but wouldn’t say why.
  — Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
• While states can summon the guard on their own, the District does not have that power.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
• Olsson, for the first time in her career, was being summoned.
  — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• Two researchers summoned to the lodge treat their ailing boss with the unicorn’s blood and cure him.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2025
• But, from any pile of ashes, a phoenix can rise if the right people can figure out how to summon it.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
• That was really the best the Bears could summon on fourth-and-goal from the 1?
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2024
• Taylor watched the game from the dugout until the ninth inning when he was summoned to pinch run and play left field.
  — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 29 May 2025