How do you use Invoked in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Invoked meaning
simple past and past participle of invoke
Using Invoked
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of invoke
- In the example corpus, invoked often appears in combinations such as: invoked the, been invoked, be invoked.
Context around Invoked
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Invoked
- In this selection, "invoked" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, repeatedly, griffin, lifting, free, article and emergencies stand out and add context to how "invoked" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also repeatedly invoked peace for and chastanet who invoked race claims. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "invoked" sits close to words such as astronaut, banker and champ, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with invoked
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
However Chastanet who invoked race claims that members of the government are the real culprits. (15 words)
Judge Medland invoked the custodial aspect of the sentence, constituting a 14-month prison sentence. (15 words)
Because of this, he said, Albania has not invoked Article 5. “How does the alliance respond? (16 words)
But it was also a time of great resilience as Britons once again invoked the Dunkirk Spirit – then not such a distant memory - and rallied around to rescue marooned neighbours, offer shelter to those made homeless, and food and clothing to those without. (43 words)
Legault's government had pre-emptively invoked the notwithstanding clause on the Quebec secularism law, known as Bill 21, which forbids some public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols on the job. (35 words)
A video of the August deposition the New York Attorney General’s office took of former President Donald Trump, in which Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions, was released Tuesday. (34 words)
Because of this, he said, Albania has not invoked Article 5. “How does the alliance respond? (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
To the global majority, those unwritten laws have the appearance of being invoked when they benefit the U.S. and its partners and not being invoked when they don’t.
At trial in Santa Fe, Griffin invoked free speech guarantees in his defense and said his banishment from public office disenfranchises his political constituents in Otero County.
A video of the August deposition the New York Attorney General’s office took of former President Donald Trump, in which Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions, was released Tuesday.
Because of this, he said, Albania has not invoked Article 5. “How does the alliance respond?
But it was also a time of great resilience as Britons once again invoked the Dunkirk Spirit – then not such a distant memory - and rallied around to rescue marooned neighbours, offer shelter to those made homeless, and food and clothing to those without.
Canada has already invoked a 1977 pipelines treaty with the U.S. in both Wisconsin and Michigan, where Michigan’s attorney general is also in court trying to get the pipeline shut down.
Chicago joins other democratic strongholds that have invoked emergencies over arriving migrants, and that have blamed governors in Republican states for not doing enough to coordinate the trips.
Equipment operator might be another one, but I can see there being some heavy lifting invoked for setup and take down.
Foreign businesses are worried the law could be invoked to justify China prying into their confidential information and proprietary data.
Francis has also repeatedly invoked peace for Ukraine since Russia invaded the eastern European country in February 2022.
He repeatedly invoked Putin’s name in his remarks as he framed the battle as part of a broader confrontation between autocracies and democracies.
However Chastanet who invoked race claims that members of the government are the real culprits.
However, there have been instances where litigants have invoked writ jurisdiction in contractual disputes that are otherwise governed by an agreement to arbitrate.
In November, the Ukrainian government invoked wartime laws to take control of stakes in the nation’s leading energy company Ukrnafta, partially controlled by Kolomoisky.
It was last invoked in 2005 for a referendum on a new European constitution, which the government of then president lost in a shock setback.
Jaishankar said India had invoked diplomatic parity under the Vienna convention, "because we had concerns about continuous interference in our affairs by Canadian personnel".
Judge Medland invoked the custodial aspect of the sentence, constituting a 14-month prison sentence.
Later, Irish poets, including Yeats, retreated into towers where they invoked new spirit worlds into a rich heritage of literature, most of it in their conquerors’ language.
Legault's government had pre-emptively invoked the notwithstanding clause on the Quebec secularism law, known as Bill 21, which forbids some public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols on the job.
Many see Arkansas as leading the latter push; officials there invoked a new law in October that bans certain foreign owners and ordered a Chinese seed company to divest its land.
Common combinations with invoked
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- invoked the 37×
- been invoked 11×
- be invoked 9×
- invoked in 9×
- have invoked 7×
- had invoked 7×
- invoked his 7×
- and invoked 7×
- invoked to 6×
- who invoked 6×