Sentence examples for could only summon from inspiring English sources

In the event he could only summon the energy to climb right over it once.

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Whether possession should still be prohibited but police could only summon individuals to appear before panels tasked with determining education, health or social interventions.

If he could only summon the energy, he would walk out of the yard, past the gates and into the traffic on the highway.

As dusk drew in at Abu Ghraib, with tens of thousands of people still defying loudspeaker calls for the prison compound to be cleared, it was clear that a day that began for many with a fantastical turnaround of a kind most Iraqis could only have summoned in their dreams -- Mr. Hussein, architect of a merciless penal system, seemingly pulling it down at a stroke -- had ended in still more tragedy.

It need only summon the will to do so.

I could tell I was in the presence of something complicated — intelligent, smoky, subterranean — but I could summon only the fragile ghost of a response.

Anyone could create a mystery, but only the best could summon up a world in which the mystery could take root.

Pelfrey could summon only a "wow".

Only Boris Johnson could summon such a comparison.

With shoulder surgery forcing his right arm in a sling, Torre could summon only left-handers from the bullpen.