Example sentences for: evoke

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

  • They are less chic now, but their majestic sweep can still evoke former glories.

  • The Delerue CD is a box of bittersweets: two- or three-minute cues that deftly evoke a mood or a quick pang, and then move on.

  • Reporters and editors decide what hypotheses are newsworthy and likely to evoke interest in their readers and, for the same reasons discussed in Landsburg's article, this selection criteria are not especially effective at selecting the true scientific hypothesis.

  • Boston writer Jonathan Harr, in the book the movie is based on, went beyond the poison in the Woburn wells to evoke (stopping just short of libel) the poison of the civil courts, where platoons of overpaid corporate lawyers can drive opponents with pockets less deep and psyches less stable into bankruptcy and hysteria.

  • The ways in which October Sky does not evoke Field of Dreams would fill a book.


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