Example sentences for: evokes

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

  • The New York Times headline says it evokes the Senate's rejection of the Versailles Treaty, which meant that the League of Nations went forward without U.S. participation.

  • One evokes law enforcement.

  • Perfumes are supposed to attract, not repel (or so their makers would have us believe), and the name scarcely evokes the image of an attractant.

  • The USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor powerfully evokes the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific (see page 39).

  • This construction makes sense since each hint by itself is generally so vague or open-ended that it evokes more potential answers than a puzzler's brain can handle.


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