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"Summons" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The smell of cut grass summons up images of hot summer afternoons.
You know what it is? Yes, jury duty, got a summons in the mail.
A summons has been issued.
A summons was issued.
Guess the riddle. An old woman with one tooth, summons everybody. The bell.
Fadil received a court summons.
The herdsman obeyed the summons, but upon looking for a rope for the purpose of drawing Daphnis out, none was to be found: upon which Chloe unfastened the cord which bound her hair, and gave it to the herdsman who let one end of it down to Daphnis.
At my summons, instead of the man of violence whom we expected, a very old and wrinkled woman hobbled into the apartment.
"Thus roused, her friends she gathers. All await / her summons, who the tyrant fear or hate. / Some ships at hand, chance-anchored in the bay / they seize and load them with the costly freight, / and far off o'er the deep is borne away / Pygmalion's hoarded pelf. A woman leads the way."
"Now learn, how best to compass my design. / To Tyrian Carthage hastes the princely boy, / prompt at the summons of his sire divine, / my prime solicitude, my chiefest joy, / fraught with brave store of gifts, saved from the flames of Troy."
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He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon[…]; but neither summons nor pardon was any thing regarded.
this summons […] unfit either to dispute or disobey
special summonses by the king
Four summonses were brought recently on behalf of St. Pancras Borough Council against the British Transport Commission in respect of the emission of smoke by locomotives standing at Camden Motive Power Depot. (The summonses were dismissed)
It proposes that those held in the prototype Selfridges cells be kept for a maximum of four hours to have their identity confirmed and be charged, summonsed or given a fine.
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