evoke
Example Sentences
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The chord progression and clattery percussion on “Dead Women” evoke “Lay Lady Lay,” while Mitski’s song imagines someone pawing through her things after death, trying to uncover her secrets.
“Because of the distance, the images actually evoked a beautiful nostalgia in me.”
From Los Angeles Times
Each evokes the tenderhearted nostalgia held by millions who have never known a version of modern life without Jackson’s presence.
From Salon
Many selected books evoke the greatest anxieties of our time, from government-sanctioned historical revisionism to the ongoing proliferation of AI.
From Los Angeles Times
In the area with cold plunging and a sauna, the walls undulate with patterns that change color, designed to evoke arctic caves and volcanic rock.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
