Example sentences for: evocation

How can you use “evocation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is an odd piece of reportage, with no interest in the evocation of place.

  • The rhyme-triggered evocation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, even about a book on the tinsel town of Hollywood, is not very rewarding, and it seems just about as pointless to be led to the General Confession in the Anglican prayer book to evaluate a biography of Himmler.

  • The generic answer is A Time To Be Born (1942)--a dazzling and unsettling evocation of New York City on the verge of World War II, which grabs and holds from Paragraph 1. Still, in many ways, I think Turn, Magic Wheel (1936) is even more perfect--a fleet-footed satire of literary life and celebrity authors (namely Ernest H.), and one of Powell's few "modernist" books.

  • Next day, showing them off to my landlord, I was gently told that the correct word was “damasquinas,” with its exotic evocation of damask and Damascus.

  • The defense, conducted by White House counsel Charles Ruff, even though basically foot-stomping, and punctuated by a too-exquisitely timed choke-up evocation by Ruff of his late father on Omaha Beach, gets good reviews.


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