Sample Sentences for
summon
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    Summon all our people to meet me here as speedily as they can.  (source)
    Summon = call (to come)
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    Why would anybody want to summon a monster?  (source)
    summon = called forth
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    There was a kitchen separate from the rest of the house, tacked onto it by a wooden catwalk; in the back yard was a rusty bell on a pole, used to summon field hands or as a distress signal;  (source)
    summon = call
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    He took a breath, summoned his courage, and continued.  (source)
    summoned = called forth (from within)
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    "Hide," said Harry as he pointed his wand at Bogrod, who whistled to summon a little cart that came trundling along the tracks toward them out of the darkness.  (source)
    summon = call to him
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    When he threw the latch, the thumper would begin its summons.  (source)
    summons = call (to come)
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    [This is Riff's summoning of the gang, and they surround him.]  (source)
    summoning = calling to come
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    His summoner received him gravely, and motioned him to a chair.†  (source)
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    Since sore he was summon'd, a night of sweet easement.†  (source)
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    Piles of legal documents began arriving almost daily at Deborah's door: summonses and petitions and updates and motions.†  (source)
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    There rose before his eyes, unsummoned, vistas of old stones and riverbanks, the pigeons of the Palais-Royal, the Gare du Nord, quiet old streets round the Pantheon, and many another scene of the city he'd never known he loved so much, and these mental pictures killed all desire for any form of action.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsummoned means not and reverses the meaning of summoned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting horns, but silver summoners and mother-of-pearl opera glasses and all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness.†  (source)
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    Famous examples of misguided summonings include Dr. Faustus, Madam Lurie, and the Mad Dey of Oran.†  (source)
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