CONVOKE in a Sentence

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1. He has to convoke Congress at the outbreak of the emergency.
2. I would mingle with the festival the rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids.
3. The president of the board of directors convoked a conference to discuss the future of the company.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONVOKE
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convoke
 v.  call together; cause to assemble in meeting; convene
Classic Sentence:
1  I would mingle with the festival the rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
2  A single hereditary person, having the constant, supreme, executive power, and with it the power of convoking and dissolving the other two within certain periods of time.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  However, on the present occasion, the meeting was NOT one of this kind; it was a meeting convoked of necessity, and likely in view of the threatened calamity to affect every tchinovnik in the place.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  He has to convoke Congress at the outbreak of the emergency.
2  After the law is published in the coming days, Catalonia's regional president, Artur Mas, is expected to sign a decree formally convoking the referendum for Nov. 9.
3  The president of the board of directors convoked a conference to discuss the future of the company.