Example sentences for: evoking

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

  • " 'What I mean to do, by evoking the people whose lives and work I have admired, is not to dictate the terms of virtue but to invite other people to reciprocal thoughts about what seems to them to be inescapably good or important, and how to put that into a life.

  • 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.

  • Singer is very good at evoking the palimpsest imprints of his characters' layered lives in a way that gives them more modernist complexity than his rather conventional conception of character and plot might otherwise have allowed for.

  • Possibly mannequins (fashion models) can be considered cat-like when they promenade, cat-footed , confident in moving down the catwalk at a fashion show evoking no catcalls from the audience (unless the designs fail to be to the viewers' liking), eliciting catty remarks, turning the show into a catastrophe .

  • This book is the product of both a strong movement toward the intellectualization of black experience among an elite and the anti-intellectualization of black experience by the public at large (earnest and respectful of black experience as it has now generally become) and those who cater to the public's access to intellectual material by rounding off the rough edges and making it thoroughly anti-intellectual by designing and evoking certain emotional markers about "struggle" and "resistance."


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