How to Use invoke in a Sentence

invoke

verb

• The suspect invoked his right to an attorney.
• She invoked history to prove her point.
• He invoked the memory of his predecessor.
• He invoked his Fifth Amendment privileges.
• Which is why many places are invoking new rules and technology to try to control the chaos.
  — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
• While stands of dead trees may invoke a sense of ecological calamity, marshland is thriving beneath the barren canopies.
  — Quartz, 1 Mar. 2023
• Birding is an accessible way to invoke awe, an emotion that can improve your mental and physical health.
  — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 7 Feb. 2023
• Reddington said a person whom experts conclude was overmedicated at the time of a crime can invoke a defense of not guilty by reason of insanity.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
• Freeland excels at getting realistic performances from her young actors, whose rawness lends to the inspiring feelings invoked by the film.
  — Jourdain Searles, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2024
• Compounding the reason that conservatives continue to invoke Pelosi is because most voters don’t know who Jeffries is yet.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2023
• Buying seeds, according to a lot of these catalogues, is a political act—hence Fedco’s invoking the anti-apartheid movement to sell purple broccoli.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• By exploring movement invoked by ancestral knowledge and traditional ballet, Emile strives for balance between body and spirit.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• As the cloves slip their skins, the garlic in the air invokes the past.
  — Jordan P. Hickey, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2024
• When Fallbrook failed to score in the top of the fifth, the mercy rule was invoked.
  — Joe Naiman, Ramona Sentinel, 4 May 2017
• But in the evening, Trump invoked Mueller by name on Twitter for the first time.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Mar. 2018
• Wolf said of the language in the lease that until now hasn’t been invoked.
  — Ted Slowik, Daily Southtown, 29 May 2018
• Burn a Yule log to push aside dark shadows and invoke the light of truth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• The laws involved are the same as any landlord would invoke.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 14 May 2021
• The faint gray lines are shaped to invoke the imagery of the grain of the sword and represent the team’s toughness on the court.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020
• If this is the case, the plaintiffs would not be able to invoke a First Amendment right.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2017
• And that tweet invoked some very strong opinions from fans, some nice and some not so nice.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
• Inevitably, the spirit of the London Blitz has been invoked.
  — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2020
• The indictment was the first in the state to invoke a statute that comingled terrorism and hate crimes.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2022
• Jordan’s killer tried to invoke a stand-your-ground defense in the trial.
  — Lucy McBath, Cosmopolitan, 23 June 2017
• Gone was the circle of bricks inlaid to invoke the round table.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• Stockings hung on the hearth always invokes a homey feel.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2023
• The truck-is-your-home judge likewise invoked the Eighth Amendment.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 7 Mar. 2018
• Both answers invoke the same response: Why the heck not?
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• And some of those screams happened to invoke the name of another golfer.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 19 June 2021
• In the past year, researchers invoked the blobs to solve two long-standing puzzles there.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024