Sample Sentences for
invocation
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    KHALA: traditional invocation to still the angry spirits of a place whose name you mention.  (source)
    invocation = request for help from a deity
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    When I chuckled at the older woman's invocation of the parable, she laughed, too.  (source)
    invocation = calling upon for support
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    Immediately after collection, Maycomb Methodists sang what they called the Doxology in lieu of the minister praying over the collection plate to spare him the rigors involved in inventing yet another prayer, since by that time he had uttered three healthy invocations.  (source)
    invocations = prayers to God
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    On one occasion, blue smoke poured from the lectern during the invocation, and there was fear that it was a bomb.  (source)
    invocation = prayer
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    His constant dorm reassignments notwithstanding, Jaimie kept a quiet profile and conducted himself in accordance with the Nickel handbook's rules of conduct—a miracle, since no one had ever seen the handbook despite its constant invocations by the staff.†  (source)
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    But to think that the invocation of empirical studies on a subject frees one from the job of finding out what the great instinctive psychologists have said about that subject before you got to it is just misguided.  (source)
    invocation = calling upon for support
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    The DRUMMER intones under the PRAISE-SINGER'S invocations.†  (source)
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    It amused him that he had to come to Ethiopia to learn exactly what it was: an invocation and a wake-up call for Lord Venkateswara.  (source)
    invocation = calling upon
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    Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws-riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in public-knock-kneed, droopstockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong.†  (source)
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    The only response the other two magicians evinced at the death of their companion was to increase the speed of their invocation.  (source)
    invocation = calling upon supernatural help
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    At times, after a day's frantic resort to such invocations, a revulsion would sweep over her.†  (source)
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    The affiance of the Soul-Sword is seraphic—like those angel knives you Shadowhunters use, but a thousand times more so, because its power was drawn from the Angel himself, not simply from the invocation of an angelic name.  (source)
    invocation = calling upon for support
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    For the first two or three days many stayed outside, under the palms and pomegranate trees in the garden in front of the porch, and listened from a distance to the swelling tide of prayers and invocations whose backwash filled the neighboring streets.†  (source)
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