Example sentences for: evokes

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

  • The center of town looks to the future with new official buildings, housing blocks, and wide avenues, but the traffic evokes nostalgia with its parade of donkey carts, ox carts, pony carts, and farm tractors, plus the usual proliferation of bicycles.

  • The old city inside the gates still evokes the layout of the Jewish quarter and almedina of the Moors.

  • Emerging new treatment modalities are generally targeted to specific tyrosine kinases of the tumor cells through basically two independent approaches [ 2 ] . One is to use highly specific monoclonal antibody to target the membrane receptors of growth factors important for tumor cell growth, and the antibody/antigen complex evokes host immune system to kill the tumor cells.

  • The Silk Museum on the second floor, with its collection of kimono and exhibits of the silk-making process, evokes the period when Yokohama was the hub of that industry.

  • It can also refer to a more idle, juvenile form of daydreaming--to the heated but generic longing a pop star evokes, for instance, when he wails, "I want you."


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