Example sentences for: evokes

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

  • Occasionally, she turns to look into another camera--a move that unintentionally evokes the old Chevy Chase "Weekend Update" shtick--but the movie is otherwise static, and the lines sound as if she has said them hundreds of times before.

  • The second-place ad-- One Night Stand, Two Weeks Later --evokes a 1940s black-and-white Hollywood melodrama about the wages of illicit love.

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

  • October Sky evokes an era when information was precious, when a kid could get excited about the appearance of a text called Principles of Guided Missile Design that hardly anyone knew existed.

  • Each of these metatheses evokes a chuckle of delight.


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