How to Use invocation in a Sentence

invocation

noun

• They began the meeting with an invocation.
• The poem begins with an invocation of the Muses.
• In other ways, though, Allison’s invocation of Thucydides feels too neat.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 2 June 2018
• In its typical invocation, chemistry is a cop-out—an after-the-fact explanation of why a team won, especially against the odds.
  — Ben Rowen, The Atlantic, 15 June 2018
• In the past, most such invocations have been related to foreign policy, like prosecuting a war or responding to a global trade threat.
  — Daniel Flatley, Fortune, 5 June 2019
• On the right, Trump's defenders justifiably bristle at invocations of Hitler and the Holocaust.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
• But there were just as many invocations of combat as of faith.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
• But the invocation of the Pottery Barn rule in relation to Afghanistan doesn’t make sense.
  — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2021
• Flores said that Johnson was asked during the month of May to give the invocation.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 17 June 2023
• Their constant invocation of coups tends to be a smokescreen for their own flouting of the rules.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Critics lampooned the president for the gaffe, and some called for the invocation of the 25th Amendment.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2024
• One of its most famous invocations is from the Gospel of John, in the instance of Jesus raising Lazarus from a tomb.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• The methods of invocation, the forms of the circles, the vestments, even the incenses have changed little, if at all.
  — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Of course, this mentality has been around a long time (as the invocation of the Bronze Age suggests).
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 July 2023
• So what may be a useful lens through which to see Biden’s invocation of fascism?
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• In Rhodes’s view, such an invocation would have given his group legal cause to act.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
• This might be a fair enough expression of love and devotion, but the world has changed since its first invocation.
  — Sean Lavery, The New Yorker, 27 June 2019
• The invocation of Walker Evans is apt, though, in a different way.
  — Scott Borchert, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2022
• As the invocation of sultans suggests, this is an exploration of the highest-end items, made for the palaces of the privileged.
  — Ted Loos, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2023
• At first, this invocation of a Founding Father seems rather grandiose.
  — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2020
• Epic poems like Hesiod’s Theogony, the Odyssey and the Iliad all begin with some sort of invocation to a goddess or muse.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
• The governor’s invocation clears the way for the state fire marshal to help local firefighters in battling the blaze.
  — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2021
• But what is to be made of this invocation of slavery offered during my own lifetime?
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
• The event started with an interfaith invocation from the Imam and Rabbi.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
• The invocation of America’s soul is at the heart of nearly every major Biden speech.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
• First came an invocation, spoken over the hushed chords of organ music.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
• The sites are angry and mournful: their invocations of peace, justice, and freedom are not banal.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• But the use of Title 42 to turn away migrants is based on junk science and its invocation last year was rooted in xenophobia.
  — Michael Breen and Michele Heisler, CNN, 5 June 2021
• The project is an invocation to look at the glaciers of Latin America, there are very remote places like this one where the retreat is accelerating.
  — Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 3 July 2024
• For all the heady invocations of free-world solidarity, the reality is that Europe cannot be America’s wingman in Asia — at least not anytime soon.
  — Mark Hannah, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024