Sentence examples for invoke in from inspiring English sources

The family-curse theme, especially, is one we like to invoke in thinking about the Kennedys.

It's also the sort of boredom that some of Wallace's tortuously long and deliberately difficult descriptions invoke in his reader.

Many did not rise to the levels of European models that East Enders sometimes invoke in analogies.

You know, rich, middle-aged white men?" Lawyers on both sides invoke, in sober tones, "the downtown dialect" and "optics," code for skin tone.

Givenchy skipped a show, and instead Riccardo Tisci put 10 outfits on forms, their beading and tiny skulls meant to invoke, in part, death.

This is not exactly the art-commerce divide that sentimentalists of cinema invoke in a vain effort to distinguish aesthetic ambition from mercenary zeal.

War was invoked in a news broadcast.

Universal jurisdiction was invoked in Britain's Pinochet case.

There are no psychoanalytical categories invoked in my biography.

"The power isn't invoked in them yet.

Even so, President Abraham Lincoln is often invoked in discussion.