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Example sentences for "evoke"

Lexicographically close words:
evir; eviscerated; evocation; evocations; evocative; evoked; evokes; evoking; evolute; evoluted
  1. The oil-painting Abend, of 1882, also bears eloquent testimony to Klinger's power to evoke purely pictorial images of great loveliness.

  2. We have found that, properly understood, there is nothing in it to evoke our pessimism.

  3. It would be premature to attempt to define the exact outline of the new forms of romantic love, or the precise lineaments of the beings who will most ardently evoke that love.

  4. In order that an object produce pleasure of any sort in a conscious being it must evoke the exercise of this being's faculties; for the conscious condition which we describe as pleasure is always a reflex of conscious activity.

  5. In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of thoughtfulness.

  6. I can conceive how distasteful all these memories must be, nor should I evoke them without absolute necessity.

  7. The passionate attachment which this dead Galilean peasant is able to evoke in the hearts of people all these centuries after His death, is an unheard of and an unparalleled thing.

  8. He believed that in these rapturous and triumphant words he was gathering together the experience of every Roman Christian, and would evoke from their lips a confident 'Amen.

  9. The effect of the War has undoubtedly been to evoke far more serious thought on the real problems of life, and also practical activity in dealing with many of them.

  10. Wherever we turn our eyes we can observe these things happening simultaneously, and everywhere they naturally evoke in men thoughts and feelings.

  11. A blooming flower, an animal growing, a decaying tree, evoke in his soul definite lines.

  12. Make every endeavor to be deaf and blind to everything that may be going on around you at the same time, and bear in mind particularly that this contemplation is to evoke a state of feeling in your soul.

  13. And we rise rapidly when, in such moments, we fill our consciousness with only those thoughts that evoke admiration, respect, and veneration for men and things.

  14. It may be possible by such means to evoke a force which would enable the soul to attain the inner vision.

  15. To become second-rate men, when nature has endowed them with qualities that men vainly emulate, vainly seek to evoke their spirit in the arts and literature!

  16. Yet it is human to compare, and if a violinist can evoke such a vision of perfection, then he must be of uncommon powers.

  17. The Bible, the mystical teachings of Mother Church--why evoke familiar witnesses?

  18. They loudly twang the strings of sloppy sentiment, which evoke not music, but mush and moonshine.

  19. For It is not within the capability of man to evoke or to develop the totality of woman.

  20. For Each takes pleasure in believing that he or she alone can evoke this passion.

  21. She never knows what will evoke it; she never knows what course it will run: whether it will cement her lover's affections, or whether it will dissipate them forever.

  22. But One thing is impossible to love: love cannot create love; the intensest and most fervent love is powerless to evoke a scintillation of love.

  23. As regards the several stanzas of doggerel verse, they may too evoke such laughter as to compel the reader to blurt out the rice, and to spurt out the wine.

  24. As a rule the biographer cannot bear to evoke the smallest pity for his hero.

  25. Imagine that an angel, at that very instant, were to seize and retain, in a magic mirror or miraculous basket, the images these words would evoke in the souls that should hear them.

  26. The images that words evoke are for ever betraying the thoughts for which they stand.

  27. As she danced, when I noted the spectators, I could see here and there a gleam in the eyes of coarse faces, though there was no slightest movement or gesture or look of the dancer to evoke it.

  28. To-day, in the Americanised Latin Quarter, the incident would merely serve to evoke the activities of the police.

  29. Almost anywhere a thrust of your cane will evoke a gush of steam.

  30. Because I called up Judas, must I also evoke the partner of his crime?

  31. He would have regarded it as a sacrilege to evoke the enthusiasm of the people, and make money; for his own benefit, or to speculate upon the triumphs of his muse.

  32. The welfare of France should reign in all our thoughts and evoke our most ardent sympathy.

  33. The authorities of the New England confederacy eventually refused to evoke the hostility of the dangerous Five Nations.

  34. Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone brought forward a Reform Bill strong enough to evoke the latent Conservative feeling of a House of Commons which, though showing a nominally Liberal majority, had been chosen under Palmerstonian auspices.

  35. Moreover, though I can recollect the visions with absolute distinctness, I cannot evoke them.

  36. But, when all are together, moon and wave and whiteness and setting Time and the melancholy cry, they evoke an emotion which cannot be evoked by any other arrangement of colours and sounds and forms.

  37. The memories that we evoke while waking, however distant they may at first appear to be from the present action, are always connected with it in some way.

  38. Nay, you must obtain a perfect adherence, for between the memory that you evoke and the crude sensation that you perceive there must not be the least discrepancy; otherwise you would be just dreaming.

  39. Aaron found this a means of amusement, and often indulged in a series of gymnastics that would evoke the envy of the king of athletic sports.

  40. No matter in what respect he may differ in his mental and moral nature, his likeness to them should at least restrain his pride, evoke his sympathy, and share the bounty of his benevolence.

  41. More than once in the course of this essay has there been occasion to evoke the names of Sophocles, of Shakspere and of Molière, the supreme masters of the dramatic art.

  42. To evoke the atmosphere of Japan as soon as possible, Mr. Belasco also had a special curtain designed for the play, which co-operated with the exotic music to bring about a feeling of vague remoteness and of brooding mystery.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evoke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ape; approach; approximate; arouse; bring; call; cause; character; characterize; cite; compare; conjure; contrive; convene; copy; correspond; counterfeit; deduce; delineate; demand; depict; derive; describe; draw; educe; effect; elicit; evince; evoke; express; extract; favor; follow; get; imitate; indent; induce; inspire; instigate; invoke; lead; limn; match; milk; mimic; mind; mirror; motivate; muster; near; obtain; occasion; outline; page; paint; parallel; partake; picture; portray; procure; produce; prompt; provoke; raise; recall; recapture; recollect; reflect; remember; render; represent; requisition; resemble; retrace; retrospect; review; revive; rouse; secure; seem; serve; simulate; sketch; stimulate; subpoena; suggest; summon; summons; write