evocative

Example Sentences

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His evocative depictions of forest scenes are stunning in their own right, hypnotically expressive and made to tickle your id, unearthing deeply rooted primal sensations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Mr. Friedman often rides his bike in his hometown of Jerusalem, at the intersection of roads named for Senesh and Sereni, “hoping for something evocative to happen.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Fennell is not merely playing fast and loose with her source material, as a skeptic might think; she’s lifting the evocative images of Brontë’s prose and envisioning them as one might when reading the novel.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026

The songs on Black British Music are vivid and evocative, finding light in the darkness but never quite shaking off an undercurrent of sadness.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

There is something evocative in the idea that the material used to write code gave rise to the word itself: form became function.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee