summons
IPA: sˈʌmʌnz
noun
- A call to do something, especially to come.
- (law) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
- (military) A demand for surrender.
verb
- (transitive) To serve someone with a summons.
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Examples of "summons" in Sentences
- A second messenger interrupted with imperative summons from the council.
- I picked it up like a jury summons, which is to say, unenthusiastically.
- But in some ways the phrase summons what has happened in architecture since 9/11.
- Typing his name summons him to a thread, most likely with a string of condescending insults and drummed-up outrage over the fact that we're calling him a troll.
- There's the literal, like Chocobos, Moogles and certain summons; and the less so, like a particular visual and musical aesthetic, or themes of war ethics or class struggles.
- Instead, the name summons up unsparing caricature: grime, gangsters, pollution, ugly highways, Byzantine shopping malls, Saharan parking lots and a level of culture somewhere between troglodyte and troll.
- When the extraordinary summons from the lawyers arrives, informing her that she has inherited a property on the demise of a mother she had thought died when she was three, she sets off north in search of answers.
- The word summons up images of late-night cram sessions, essays fleshed out with as many adjectives as can fit onto a sheet of wide-ruled paper, bibliographies that are technically works of fiction, and grades that are lower than we secretly believe they ought to be.
- When the legislature confers on a police officer the same power to deprive an individual of his liberty by arrest with or without a warrant, with all the attendant circumstances, for a trivial offence warranting a fine of a few dollars as it does in the case of robbery or murder, or to arrest when a summons is all that is required, it alienates the public support for law and law enforcement and undermines the authority of all law.
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