Example sentences for: evoke

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

  • Your writing has the power to evoke strong visual images in the mind's eye and for that very reason I feel you should show restraint when reviewing a film early in its release.

  • It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate—“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use—his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce . A handful of examples, from the book at hand:

  • A drop-ship discount might also evoke type-1 worksharing activity.

  • There is a false consciousness to a late 20 th -century writer's efforts to evoke a 19 th -century man in a language that belongs to neither.

  • I also had to overcome some grownup resistance to the books themselves, mostly owing to the atrophying of my capacity for the kind of flashlight-under-the-covers, breathless absorption you evoke so nicely.


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