evince

in a sentence

It was noted at the time and remarked upon afterwards, that in this final scene the good man evinced little or nothing of the perfunctory.  (source) Herman Melville, Billy Budd, 1924

What sudden eagerness is this you evince?  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

But it is in matters beyond the limits of mere rule that the skill of the analyst is evinced.  (source) Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, 1850

His whiskey came from Ireland, a place he had never been to but evinced a mild fondness for, perhaps because Ireland was like the Shikoku of a parallel universe, not dissimilar in shape, and likewise slung on the ocean-ward side of a larger island at one end of the vast Eurasian landmass, or perhaps because of an Irish gangster film he had gone to see repeatedly in his still-impressionable youth.†  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

For some reason (natural prudence perhaps, and an instinctive reticence with foreigners) she did not evince the keen interest that he seemed to expect from her about the Man with Twin Sons.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

The Forsaken's hand dangled limply, but it kept coming on toward them, evincing no sign of pain.†  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

But when a long train of abuses and ... evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,  (source) Thomas Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence, 1776

'Come here!' he said to me, with that near childlike simplicity he had evinced on the steps.†  (source) Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, 1976

Nevertheless, during the two weeks which followed, one or more wolves used the track past my tent almost every night — and never, except on one memorable occasion, did they evince the slightest interest in me.†  (source) Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf, 1963

Without evincing any inclination to come in again, he there delivered his valedictory remarks.†  (source) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.†  (source) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

She must have heard us talking in the corridor, because she evinced no surprise at our appearance, just a look of terrified determination.†  (source) Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice, 2013

Suspending those who had crowned the young prince, Denying the legality of his coronation; Binding with the chains of anathema, Using every means in your power to evince The King's faithful servants, everyone who transacts His business in his absence, the business of the nation.†  (source) T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, 1935