Example sentences for: evoke

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

  • It should evoke a sense of revulsion in any sensitive human being, and has no place in a civil society."

  • 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.

  • To highlight the danger of terrorists obtaining chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons, Bonk brought along a mock-up suitcase to evoke the way the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult had spread deadly sarin nerve agent on the Tokyo subway in 1995.

  • No matter how heavy the cares of the day, your witty responses evoke hearty laughter in most instances, and thus a lighter spirit.

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


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