Sample Sentences forconvocation (editor-reviewed)
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At the start of the school year, the principal held a convocation in the gym to welcome students and explain the new rules.convocation = formal assembly
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Students and faculty filled the auditorium for the convocation marking the college's 150th anniversary.
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At the beginning of the school year, our town holds an optional convocation at a local church where teachers, students, and families gather to hear speeches and pray for a good year.
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It is a formal convocation of Fremen leaders to witness a combat that determines tribal leadership.† (source)
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Overnight, the satyrs and nymphs disappeared into the woods for a convocation of the Cloven Elders.† (source)
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Didn't you read about those fancy professors asking those questions in that—that Convocation?† (source)
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I had no idea what they might spring on my mother and me once they had us in the office; the very word "conference" suggested a convocation of authorities, accusations and face-downs, a possible expulsion.† (source)
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He did not need to tell the Convocation he had failed.† (source)
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But it is only the language of economic class they are speaking, in one of its allowable outward forms, like the convocation of station wagons at the start of the year.† (source)
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The convocation speaker is Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor, scholar, poet, philosopher, and all-around conscience for hire.† (source)
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You have your murder of ravens, your convocation of eagles, your gaggle of geese, your raft of ducks, your band of jays, your parliament of owls, and so on, but what about dragons?† (source)
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On mornings when Carlos was to butcher he'd come up the walkway through a great convocation of cats all sitting about on the tiles under the ramada each in its ordered place and he'd pick one up and stroke it standing there at the patio gate through which he'd once seen her gathering limes and he'd stand for a while holding the cat and then let it slip to the tiles again whereupon it would return at once to the spot from which it had been taken and he would enter the kitchen and take off his hat.† (source)
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If the bishops in Convocation submitted this morning, I'll take it off ....It's no degradation.† (source)
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I cannot be part of this gaudy convocation of princesses and fairies, jesters and imps, specters and illusions.† (source)
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For the cries of pain and the hymns and protests of oppressed people have summoned into convocation all the majesty of this great government—the government of the greatest nation on earth.† (source)
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Convocation† (source)
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