evocative

Example Sentences

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“That a name evocative of Disneyland has been applied to a depopulated, decimated swath of Ukrainian coal-and-steel country could appear jarring as Europe’s deadliest fighting since World War II continues to rage,” they wrote.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

Mr. Spears’s orchestration is similarly evocative of this timeless state, with rumbles, lush strings, and no high woodwinds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The jury praised Barclay's debut performance for its "exploration of Britishness, class, race and masculine identity, through an evocative, experimental use of language and a psychologically immersive soundscape"

From BBC • Apr. 23, 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

Kant suggested explicitly that M31 in the constellation Andromeda was another Milky Way, composed of enormous numbers of stars, and proposed calling such objects by the evocative and haunting phrase “island universes.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan