How do you use Summons in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like bidding or call, plus the exact meaning.
Summons in a sentence
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Summons meaning
- A call to do something, especially to come.
- A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
- A demand for surrender.
Using Summons
- The main meaning on this page is: A call to do something, especially to come. | A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness. | A demand for surrender.
- Useful related words include: bidding, call, cite, summon.
- In the example corpus, summons often appears in combinations such as: issued summons, the summons, summons to.
Context around Summons
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Summons
- In this selection, "summons" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, criminal, moogles, preliminary, issued, vader and various stand out and add context to how "summons" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 31 10 summons on live and a criminal summons for second. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "summons" sits close to words such as auckland, culturally and edison, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with summons
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Christopher D. Bartlett, 37, of Oneida, was issued a second-degree criminal summons for harassment. (15 words)
George R. Lighthall Sr., 57, of Oneida, was issued a criminal summons for second-degree harassment. (16 words)
They must formally deliver the summons to the singer at his residence in Florida so that Michael Wendler cannot avoid the summons. (22 words)
Ewon who is Penampang Member of Parliament, said this when asked if the PH Sabah representatives would proceed or withdraw the suit on July 31, which the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak has set for the hearing of the preliminary summons. (42 words)
Following Luke’s escape on Bespin, and despite his master’s summons, Vader embarked upon a mission to track down and punish all those who covered up the boy’s existence, to the true Dark Lord of the Sith’s displeasure. (41 words)
However, lawyers for the party said on Tuesday that attempts to serve summons on De Ruyter had been complicated by the fact that he had moved to the US from Germany, where papers had been delivered to the local sheriff. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Both politicians had challenged in the high court the summons issued by a trial court in the case filed by the Gujarat University and the subsequent order of the sessions court dismissing their revision pleas against the summons.
They must formally deliver the summons to the singer at his residence in Florida so that Michael Wendler cannot avoid the summons.
The council issued a summons for him to appear before them, but he would not even receive the envoys who were sent to serve him the summons.
Akashi Seijūrō is the former captain of the GoM and still holds a great deal of influence over them, as not one member refused his summons to a meeting of the group before the start of the Winter Cup.
As the villagers stop attacking Leon to respond to the summons by Osmund Saddler, Leon surveys the now-empty village before asking if everyone had gone to bingo.
Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara arrives for a hearing on a summons on traffic charges related to her craash into the side of a Jamaica Plain home last month.
Chairman, Ethics Comm announced my 31/10 summons on live TV way before official letter emailed to me at 19:20 hrs.
Christopher D. Bartlett, 37, of Oneida, was issued a second-degree criminal summons for harassment.
Each new mainline installment to the franchise may take place in a different world, but that doesn't stop Square Enix from including recurring elements in each title like Chocobos, Moogles, summons like Ifrit and Shiva, and magic crystals.
Ewon who is Penampang Member of Parliament, said this when asked if the PH Sabah representatives would proceed or withdraw the suit on July 31, which the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak has set for the hearing of the preliminary summons.
Following Luke’s escape on Bespin, and despite his master’s summons, Vader embarked upon a mission to track down and punish all those who covered up the boy’s existence, to the true Dark Lord of the Sith’s displeasure.
For all types of crime, the figures show just 5.5 per cent of offences in England and Wales resulted in a charge or summons in the year to September 2022.
George R. Lighthall Sr., 57, of Oneida, was issued a criminal summons for second-degree harassment.
He asked the appellate court for an order setting aside the judgement of the trial court and grant all his reliefs sought in his amended originating summons.
He followed the instructions of the Divrei Chaim, and then went to respond to the summons he had received from the draft board.
He is a powerful warrior that can match anyone with a sword, fights his enemies with little to no help from a supporting cast, and can utilize the powers of Eikons - summons.
His deck is more or less entirely designed around Xyz Summons which can be brought onto the battlefield by using two or more monsters who are of the same level as the materials.
However, lawyers for the party said on Tuesday that attempts to serve summons on De Ruyter had been complicated by the fact that he had moved to the US from Germany, where papers had been delivered to the local sheriff.
In addition, they will request the Master to summons various identified individuals, who could possibly shed light on the nature of the dealings of the Trust.
In general, Yaoyao's Elemental Burst works much like her Elemental Skill, except with more instances and better scaling as it can summon multiple Yuegui (the bunnies), similar to how summons Baron Bunny.
Common combinations with summons
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- issued summons 24×
- the summons 23×
- summons to 22×
- summons for 18×
- summons and 15×
- originating summons 13×
- on summons 8×
- summons in 8×
- summons by 7×
- summons on 7×