Sample sentences for INVOCATION

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Definition

a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service

The Supreme Court held that a religious invocation is allowed because it has a secular purpose; i.e., to solemnize the event .

Any invocations must be done so they do not advance any particular faith or belief.
At its close the Mormon lifted his face and arms in characteristic invocation.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
When I chuckled at the older woman's invocation of the parable, she laughed, too.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
The only response the other two magicians evinced at the death of their companion was to increase the speed of their invocation.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
Not everyone received a response from the gods, but Eugenides never doubted his invocation would be answered.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
The DRUMMER intones under the PRAISE-SINGER'S invocations.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
It was a time of struggle between beast-demons on the one side and the old prayers and invocations on the other.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Drawing himself upright, he gathered together what power he had left and parted his lips to deliver the invocation.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
Saint George!" said the Black Knight, striking down a man at every invocation; "have we traitors here?"
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
This he alledges to prove Invocation of Saints departed.
Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
The tumult increased, the invocation of Mrs. Moore continued, and people who did not know what the syllables meant repeated them like a charm.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
If you want that device to work, perhaps you should try a musical invocation.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
His invocation was brief and punchy, and for a second I thought we were getting back on the high road to right action.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
In the last act when she began the invocation to the angels, she made all the members of the audience feel as though they too had wings.
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
The pressure returned to Eragon's legs as soon as Oromis mouthed his inaudible invocation.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
Our voices were like prayers lifted up and offered as invocations to the house, and the house itself was an invocation to slower, more cautious days.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Sophie heard Lotte wake with a groan, muttering disconnected syllabics, perhaps some matutinal invocation to Jehovah, in a sepulchral Rhenish accent.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
The instant Neferet began speaking the invocation I felt the air change.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
He appealed to her: "Joy in this armor, goddess, first on Olympos, first of immortals in our invocation!
Homer -- The Iliad

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