Example sentences for: evoking

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

  • 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."

  • He is skilled at evoking places: Falling Down captured with precision what Los Angeles looks like on a vicious summer day.

  • The biography itself, which uses unpublished diaries and untapped Cuban government archives, is praised for having done a "masterly job in evoking Che's complex character, in separating the man from the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.

  • 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 .

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


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