Example sentences for: evoking

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

  • Ephron does well at evoking the ways in which e-mail and snail mail diverge, the former being so much more impulsive and exhibitionist.

  • " '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.

  • I sat soaking at about 100°F, while an exuberant gentleman on my left, who was wearing his washcloth draped over his head, gave me his four words of English: New York, Broadway, Niagara Falls, Grand Canyon . The real cultural joy, however, lay in just immersing myself in this aura, evoking Dante and 8½, and watching the occupants through the steamy haze as they lathered, rinsed, and squatted on little plastic stools to shave before low-hung misted mirrors against the walls—all this before I slap-slapped back to my room to enjoy dinner on the floor.

  • So it's not surprising that, at this moment of low ebb, Republicans are again evoking the Gipper.

  • Critics praise Cameron for evoking vintage Hollywood romances rather than schlocky disaster movies.


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