Sample Sentences for
evoke
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    It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world.  (source)
    evokes = calls forth or causes
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    Judge Taylor was not the kind of figure that ever evoked pity, but I did feel a pang for him as he tried to explain.  (source)
    evoked = aroused (gave rise to)
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    It evoked one final remark.  (source)
    evoked = caused
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    ...in any case Nadia had taken one look at Saeed's father and felt him like a father, for he was so gentle, and evoked in her a protective caring, as if for one's own child, or for a puppy, or for a beautiful memory one knows has already commenced to fade.  (source)
    evoked = aroused or caused
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    Slowly, and with great precision, so that the gesture was unmistakable, Edgar angled his left hand in front of him and shot his right beneath it, index finger as straight as the knife it was meant to evoke.  (source)
    evoke = call to mind
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    And so we would sometimes hum melodies evoking the gentle waters of the Jordan River and the majestic sanctity of Jerusalem.†  (source)
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    A sweet smell with a bitter undertone, rich and evocative.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    Mother evokes warmth and love and sweetness.†  (source)
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    At each spontaneous tribute rendered by the wayfarers to this black pagod of a fellow—the tribute of a pause and stare, and less frequent an exclamation,—the motley retinue showed that they took that sort of pride in the evoker of it which the Assyrian priests doubtless showed for their grand sculptured Bull when the faithful prostrated themselves.†  (source)
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    However, that episode evoked a great deal of anxiety in me.†  (source)
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    Lanier had objected to the photos because they might evoke sympathy for Seth.†  (source)
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    I tried to drive them out by evoking older memories of Kabati before the war.†  (source)
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    And though the texture of the pillowcase peeking out of the bag threw me an ugly short-circuit, like an electric pop in the temple, more than anything I was struck by the smell—for the plastic, pool-liner odor of masking tape had grown overwhelming from being shut up in such a small space, an emotionally evocative odor I hadn't remembered or thought of in years, a distinct polyvinyl reek that threw me straight back to childhood and my bedroom back in Vegas: chemicals and new carpet, falling asleep and waking up every morning with the painting taped behind my headboard and the same adhesive smell in my nostrils.†  (source)
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