Example sentences for: evocation

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

  • Andre Schwartz-Bart's The Last of the Just (for example) is a far more moving evocation of the Holocaust than any account in any reference work, because it focuses on the experiences of one man--a man who, if he continues to deny his Jewishness, has a reasonable chance of escaping the death camps.

  • Main Street sets the tone with its sunny evocation of small-town USA at the turn of the century.

  • Some of editor Danis Rose's changes may seem merely cosmetic--the famous evocation of the "scrotumtightening sea," for example, appears as "scrotum-tightening."

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

  • Now, that may seem like a dubious assertion, particularly given the constant rhetoric about the global economy with which we are deluged and Coca-Cola's persistent evocation of the 1.2 billion Chinese who drink only one Coke each today but will drink two Cokes each tomorrow.


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