Sentence example with the word 'evoke'

evoke

ape, bring out, character, delineate, express, instigate, not tell apart, rally, review in retrospect, stimulate, wangle out of

Definition v. call forth

Last update: September 8, 2015


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Poetry is the use of words to evoke emotions.   [verb]

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Because I didn’t want my appearance to evoke a sense of pity, I decided not to wear black to the service.    [verb]

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"Your own face changes when you speak of him," said Angela, awe-stricken at that fierce energy which heroic memories evoked in Fareham's wasted countenance.   [verb]

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Anger lies close by this point in all of us; and that the satirist evoked in another way.   [verb]

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Esther had the benefit of the feeling evoked.   [verb]

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The latter, finding itself brought to trial by its pensioner, took the affair to heart, and evoked it, says Sainte Beuve, with all possible haste.   [verb]

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Pierre had evoked the passionate affection of the Italian merely by evoking the best side of his nature and taking a pleasure in so doing.   [verb]

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What reminiscences of a human subject suffering from progressive melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom.   [verb]

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What fractions of phrases did the lecture of those five whole words evoke.   [verb]

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Pierre too drew near the church where the thing was that evoked these exclamations, and dimly made out something leaning against the palings surrounding the church.   [verb]

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With reference to commerce, the proclamation to industrious workmen and to peasants evoked no response.   [verb]

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