evokes

Example Sentences

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Australia's ballad "Eclipse" evokes a love affair between planets.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

The album title itself evokes Tom Petty’s “Into the Great Wide Open.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

According to the post, Nautas’ name evokes the spirit of a “sailor, navigator, voyager, one who embarks on a journey and fears not the unknown.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

“VHS is obviously superior if you’re looking at it in terms of your experience of the feeling that watching something evokes in you, in the relationship between yourself and the moving images,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Under the smoke, that scent—fresh, lemony, aromatic— evokes a memory of sitting on the train next to him, just like I am now7, only we’re going the other way and someone is laughing really loudly.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins