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Definition
to call forth or cause — typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind
- Who had taught him to play upon the criminal mind, provoking and evoking a reluctant commitment?Chapter 3 (62% in)
- And instinct had evoked the city of Paris.Chapter 5 (19% in)
- For something had; a book of matches had evoked an image of reality.Chapter 6 (60% in)
- The row of houses evoked another image, a very strong image of another row of flats, similar in outlines, but oddly different.Chapter 7 (17% in)
- She gasped, suddenly paralyzed, unable to breathe, the man beside her evoking a memory of terror.Chapter 7 (89% in)
- Words and looks had passed between them, quiet laughter evoked, comfort established.Chapter 10 (22% in)
- The sounds evoked memories of long ago, of screeching jungle noises woven into a single tone.Chapter 19 (11% in)
- There was another known relay at Les Classiques, a gray-haired switchboard operator named Philippe d'Anjou, whose face evoked images of violence and darkness, and shattering flashes of light and sound.Chapter 29 (81% in)
There are no more uses of "evoke" in The Bourne Identity.
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