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Example sentences for "could summon"

  • Then, suddenly, he jerked backward with all the strength he could summon.

  • Ross returned hoarsely, trying to lade that title with all the scorn he could summon.

  • He put into that all the taunting inflection he could summon.

  • The torch was a poor enough defense against spears and axes, but Ross did not care--he put into this last gamble all the determination he could summon.

  • I took his hands and I pressed them with what show of warmth I could summon.

  • I might have been Francois Villon, or some such Sothern-like incarnation, for all the civilized resources that I could summon.

  • I seated myself on the side of the bed, and taking the skeleton hand of the unhappy man, spoke to him in the most consolatory and comforting words I could summon to my assistance.

  • He remained where he was as if he had never "heard" that question, surveying the room below with all the impassiveness he could summon.

  • Shann focused his thoughts on the young Wyvern witch, visualizing with all the detail he could summon out of memory the brilliant patterns about her slender arms, her thin, fragile wrists, those other designs overlaying her features.

  • Yet that darkness was drawing him past any effort to escape he could summon.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could summon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could assume; could confide; could desire; could hear; could hope; could neither; could never; could not bring myself; could offer; could readily; could remember; could say; could see; could sing; could still; could stop; could succeed; could tell; could write; could you; couldst thou; engage them; especially after; team work; these should; three arches