INVOCATION in a Sentence

Learn INVOCATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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1. The service of Morning Prayer opens with an invocation during which we ask God to hear our prayers.
2. After other interesting exercises, including an invocation from Bishop Nelson, of Georgia, a dedicatory ode by Albert Howell, Jr.

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 Meanings and Examples of INVOCATION
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invocation
 n.  prayer for help; calling upon as reference or support
Classic Sentence:
1  Then the tune with its feet always on the same spot, became sugared, insipid; bored a hole with its perpetual invocation to perpetual adoration.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
2  Aeneas knew the call, and makes glad invocation: 'So the father of gods speed me, so Apollo on high: do thou essay to close hand to hand.'
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
3  After other interesting exercises, including an invocation from Bishop Nelson, of Georgia, a dedicatory ode by Albert Howell, Jr.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
Example Sentence:
1  The service of Morning Prayer opens with an invocation during which we ask God to hear our prayers.