The priest invoked a blessing for the sick child.
Too many people invoke a passage of the Bible to justify their intolerance of those who are different.
The old witch invoked the help of evil spirits to destroy her enemy.
By invoking a clause in the contract
guaranteeing a fixed price, management was able to avoid paying for the increase in fuel costs.
All his life, he refused to believe in any religion, but on his deathbed he suddenly invoked God, and asked for forgiveness.
The village priests performed a sacred dance to invoke their gods in
an effort to bring rain to their dry lands.
The police invoked a law against child abuse to arrest the man after he bought sex from a teenage prostitute.
I was able to find the missing files by invoking the search function.
The old woman invoked the aid of a stranger when her
husband collapsed on the sidewalk.
Many different cultures, from ancient Egyptians to 20th-century Balkan, perform special ceremonial dances intended to invoke rain and bring about an abundant harvest.
The military leader invoked religious principles to justify his overtaking the government.
The old Indian chief had raised his hands to the sky, and was invoking the gods to come to his aid.
Gilbert Chesterton once joked, "Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much."
In the Middle Ages, English soldiers believed that an army attacking a castle could invoke supernatural forces to their aid if they marched counter-clockwise around the castle walls.
Concerned citizens the world over are calling on the United Nations to invoke resolution 377A in order to bring an end to the war.