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Example sentences for "summoning"

Lexicographically close words:
summond; summoned; summoner; summoners; summoneth; summons; summonses; summum; summus; summut
  1. Amongst these he soon found the house he sought, and shrunk from its important size and bright equipments; but, summoning courage, thought it better to ring the bell.

  2. There was no summoning of the servants after dinner, however.

  3. A fine fool I shall look if I have to watch their operations and see them get away without summoning those posted outside.

  4. Steady,' he told himself, summoning all his pluck.

  5. When the witch was fairly snoring, Ha'penny crept up behind, and summoning all his strength prepared to smite her with his staff.

  6. They are summoning all the agents from their lodgings.

  7. They are summoning everybody to the office.

  8. Hey, you," said the keeper summoning a helper.

  9. Then the summoning signal for a third-helper rang out--a sledge-hammer pounding on sheet iron.

  10. As he was driven easily to the meeting he nerved himself for it, summoning up all his resolution.

  11. He took supper by himself at a small table, choosing the menu with his usual extreme care, and more than once summoning the head waiter to conference.

  12. Now, however, summoning all her courage, and strengthening herself with thoughts of Kitty, she spoke in a tolerably firm voice.

  13. Is it true then," asked Fitzwilliam, summoning all his fortitude, "that Sir Walter Elliot is going to be married?

  14. The captain and Uncle Jack deliberated together, summoning the new third mate to assist their counsels; but, they could only arrive at one opinion.

  15. Wherefore Cicero deferred the day of election, and summoning Catilina to the Senate questioned him about what was reported.

  16. Mr. Stone's face underwent the queer discoloration which marked the sudden summoning of his far thoughts.

  17. The sun still netted their top boughs, as with golden silk, and a blackbird, seated on a low branch of the acacia-tree, was summoning the evening.

  18. Had she made a mistake in summoning Mrs. Noel to nurse him?

  19. I take blame to myself now, that instead of summoning you hither, I did not hasten home as soon as I heard of the doings at Dartford, gather a score of my neighbours with their retainers, and give battle to the mob.

  20. Philip Van Artevelde at once sent messages to all the towns of Flanders summoning them to send the keys of their gates to Ghent, and to acknowledge her supremacy.

  21. Riddell had not been many minutes in class before a message came from the doctor summoning him to the library.

  22. But the only voice summoning him was the voice of a spirit wearied with the contemplation of men's evil.

  23. It was the summoning of the last ounce of purpose and courage in him.

  24. She rose to face him, summoning back the spirit of the actress.

  25. Probably, then, the unanticipated strength of Belgian resistance foreshadowed the summoning of reenforcements to Von Kluck's right wing of the whole German army.

  26. Ahningnetty, summoning some of the other maidens, surveyed Papik's load of blubber.

  27. She was very faint, she had scarcely any feeling whatever in her limbs; but summoning all her courage, bringing to bear all the love of this child she sought to save, she turned and ran.

  28. Hurriedly summoning a servant, he demanded an explanation of how the articles had come there.

  29. It was thus that Miss Clementina had been in the habit of summoning the little brown dog.

  30. He sent out runners through the settlements, summoning all the able-bodied men to make ready for a blow at the Indians.

  31. All this time the runners sent out from Bryan's had been speeding through the woods, summoning help from each of the little walled towns.

  32. Grubbs made a rush for the door, as soon as Miss Vere had gone, with the full intention of summoning the police, but Beau coolly placed his back against it with resolute firmness, and flourished his whip defiantly.

  33. His humor was not improved when a telegram arrived before breakfast, summoning him in haste to a dull town in one of the Midland counties, on pressing business connected with his candidature for Parliament.

  34. Mrs. Marvelle, summoning her timid husband from some far corner, where he had remained in hiding, took her departure with much stateliness.

  35. The black slave seized his axe again, the overseers fell to summoning workmen from the buildings, some soldiers of the prince's suite grasped their sword-hilts mechanically.

  36. He turned, however, in the direction of the temple, the silver tower of which rose above the trees as if summoning him.

  37. Further conversation was interrupted by an adjutant summoning Tutmosis to his holiness.

  38. Then why disturb the priests by summoning delegates?

  39. In that revelation, whether the Son of God was human or divine, lay a truth of surpassing power, and a motive of action capable of summoning forth the purest and highest energies of the soul.

  40. He plays upon the will, summoning it from lethargy to activity.

  41. The Indians said that the sound was but the echo of Agayentah's voice, warning them of dangers and summoning them to battle, while the Wandering Jew became his messenger.

  42. And it is hard to say how far they might have gone, but at that moment the bell rang summoning them to service.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "summoning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.