INVOCATION in a Sentence

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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.