evokes

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Every Kentucky Derby evokes emotion in the winning horse’s team, but the 1990 race brought it to a level even beyond a Hallmark movie.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026

Near the opening of his book on the intersection of science and music, Stephon Alexander shares a diagram created by John Coltrane: a mandala-like circle that evokes the cycle of musical keys.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 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

It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho