EVOKE in a Sentence
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44 example sentences for EVOKE, such as:
1. Her speech evoked a hostile response.
2. They evoke no ardor in the male breast.
3. He looked like a ghost evoked unseasonably from the grave.
4. These images are likely to evoke a strong response in the viewer.
5. But besides this feeling of respect, Pfuel evoked pity in Prince Andrew.
2. They evoke no ardor in the male breast.
3. He looked like a ghost evoked unseasonably from the grave.
4. These images are likely to evoke a strong response in the viewer.
5. But besides this feeling of respect, Pfuel evoked pity in Prince Andrew.
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Meanings and Examples of EVOKE
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evoke
v. call to mind
v. evoke or provoke to appear or occur
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1 They evoke no ardor in the male breast.
2 Kennicott's bluffness made the child squirm with a delight which Carol could not evoke.
3 In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of thoughtfulness.
4 These sudden congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to evoke, do occur.
5 A vision of their life, which his father's words had been powerless to evoke, sprang up before him out of the word cut in the desk.
6 The newcomers' entry evoked sundry exclamations and the pushing back of a pair of Government chairs as the voluminous-sleeved Sobakevitch rose into view from behind the looking-glass.
7 But besides this feeling of respect, Pfuel evoked pity in Prince Andrew.
8 When Michael Ivanovich went in there were tears in the prince's eyes evoked by the memory of the time when the paper he was now reading had been written.
9 Afterwards when he recalled those thoughts Pierre was convinced that someone outside himself had spoken them, though the impressions of that day had evoked them.
10 That pale, sad, refined face, that radiant look, those gentle graceful gestures, and especially the deep and tender sorrow expressed in all her features agitated him and evoked his sympathy.
11 With reference to commerce, the proclamation to industrious workmen and to peasants evoked no response.
12 Pierre too drew near the church where the thing was that evoked these exclamations, and dimly made out something leaning against the palings surrounding the church.
13 Pierre had evoked the passionate affection of the Italian merely by evoking the best side of his nature and taking a pleasure in so doing.
14 The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character" leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne.
15 He looked like a ghost evoked unseasonably from the grave.
Example Sentence:
1 You can use highly descriptive and persuasive sentences to evoke a positive response from your reader.
2 A polar vortex, with its satisfyingly assonant vowels and crisp consonants, sounds like either a down coat made by Patagonia or an enormous luxury-brand SUV—that is, an expensive product meant to evoke the wilds but actually used by coddled suburbanites.
3 These images are likely to evoke a strong response in the viewer.
4 Her speech evoked a hostile response.
5 Although my grandmother's china has little intrinsic value, I shall always cherish it for the memories it evokes.
6 Scent can be remarkably evocative: the aroma of pipe tobacco evokes the memory of my father.