Example sentences for: evoking

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

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls enabled Hemingway to look forward into Civil War tragedy as well as back into Donne's Devotions . In this instance, indeed, the impact of the novel was so great that any reference to the quotation for the past half century could not help evoking both the Hemingway story and the Donne passage--which was thereby given an entirely fresh currency.

  • But its capital is the smiling, sleepy town of Victoria, evoking a genteel British past that the British themselves may well have forgotten.

  • The biography itself, which uses unpublished diaries and untapped Cuban government archives, is praised for having done a "masterly job in evoking Che's complex character, in separating the man from the myth" (Peter Canby, the New York Times Book Review ). The Weekly Standard 's Stephen Schwartz calls it tainted for having received "official support" from the Castro regime and for abetting a Che revival.

  • The spot briefly reprises the faded hues--the blond hair flashing gray, the lighting evoking a street corner for a moment--before focusing on ringed fingers and thumb turning the dryer off.

  • If you don’t mind sipping a $6 daiquiri (the monthly wage of the doorman), the place is eminently capable of evoking the kind of hedonistic refuge expat writers adore.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast