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Example sentences for "evoked"

Lexicographically close words:
eviscerated; evocation; evocations; evocative; evoke; evokes; evoking; evolute; evoluted; evolution
  1. When the danger passed, however, the wisdom which it had evoked followed suit.

  2. Both the one movement and the other naturally evoked great alarm and emotion in the Austrian and Hungarian capitals, as they were seen to be genuinely popular and also potentially, if not actually, separatist in character.

  3. This sense of want evoked by Southern beauty is perhaps the antique mythopœic yearning.

  4. The statues in the temples were the true fine flower of all this beauty, the culmination of the poetry which it evoked in hearts that feel and brains that think.

  5. No one but Tintoretto could have evoked the fiend in his 'Temptation of Christ.

  6. But his mother's portrait evoked in him memories of his father .

  7. It evoked in all of us disgust, alarm, even terror.

  8. The idea peculiar to that century of diverting science to the satisfaction of men's material wants evoked a development of industry, and consequently of commerce, so extraordinary that the old conception of wealth was completely overthrown.

  9. At all the meetings of Jaffery and Doria, he was there smiling beneath his laurels, whenever he was evoked; and he was evoked continuously.

  10. They were all of a piece with the "atmospheres" evoked in the various rooms of the flat.

  11. Even I had heard of this Bohemian confraternity; and I explained with a learned inaccuracy that evoked a semi-circular grin on the pink, fleshy face of Mr. Ras Fendihook.

  12. Vainly he evoked all the logic and reason at his command, but the analogies of a by no means inconsiderable experience failed him utterly.

  13. In the hilarity which this evoked Grace said, reproachfully: "And to think I never knew!

  14. With Manet and his friends we find, then, that the concern for expression and for the sentiments evoked by the subject, was always subordinated to a purely pictorial and decorative preoccupation.

  15. The very longest West Indian day is but twelve hours fifty-six minutes;--perhaps your first dissatisfaction was evoked by the brevity of the days.

  16. Some tall piece of furniture, with its white cover, would reveal itself in the dim light; an indistinct form, raising itself like a spectre to listen to the sounds which had evoked it.

  17. So long ago, so far away it was, that I had first evoked the faces and the mutual tragic situation of the men of Durrisdeer.

  18. With no more apparatus than an ill-smelling lantern I have evoked him on the naked links.

  19. But, while the Convention was in accord on this matter, another question, that of the organization of the new judiciary, evoked the sharpest disagreement among its members.

  20. You will admit that even pleasant reminiscences affect us strangely when they come bursting in upon us in this utterly unexpected sort of manner, as if evoked by the wand of an enchanter.

  21. The sense of death, which had been evoked in all by his taking leave of life on the night when he had sent for his brother, was broken up.

  22. I really am not sure," Vronsky answered heedlessly, with a vague recollection of something stiff and tedious evoked by the name Karenina.

  23. The disaster evoked a universal burst of charity that turned fleets of battleships into engines of mercy.

  24. The feeling of college faculties evoked by its change from democratic to monarchical organization is probably expressed by a contemporaneous editorial.

  25. Of experienses discuraging to those who favor the reform, the worst we hav encounterd has been in the letrs from members of the Simplified Spelling Board which hav bin evoked by our articls.

  26. But the scoring evoked many novel effects; principally, Berlioz and vodka.

  27. But how explain the emotion evoked by a primitive chant totally unlike anything in Western melody,--impossible even to write in those tones which are the ideographs of our music-tongue?

  28. Was it demoralisation evoked by this sudden blotting out of the world around, as I found myself alone in the dark vastness of this spectral silence?

  29. The last was evoked by the sound of a great voice haranguing one of the groups we were passing.

  30. But the momentary exultation evoked by this idea subsided in a new alarm.

  31. Leonardo evoked in the expert's memory, until at last the objective work of art comes to be embedded in recollected masterpieces which impart to it their emotionally communicable virtue.

  32. Be this last as it may, it is certain that the emotion connected with the word Beautiful can be evoked by that word alone, and without an accompanying act of visual or auditive perception.

  33. He then visited America, where his presence evoked professional jealousies and bad blood, resulting in serious riots in which lives were lost.

  34. The idea of suicide comes to her; next moment she bursts into laughter at the sight of the mournful expression she has evoked on Aubrey's countenance.

  35. I turn to the Cross, and I see there a love which is evoked by no lovableness on my part, but comes from the depth of His own Infinite Being, who loves because He must, and who must because He is God.

  36. Then with regard to the context; Christ proposes to His followers this exceeding gladness as evoked in their hearts by the very thing that might seem to militate against it--viz.

  37. That word evoked for him the weak side of our art.

  38. And yet they are not ours, for we have not evoked them; but they defile us nevertheless, and leave us in despair at not being masters of our own heart, mind, and body.

  39. He flung himself away from them, and when the roll was called that night, the name of Little John evoked no response.

  40. This wondrous feat of archery evoked the loudest applause, and had not the Sheriff been so foolish a man, must have awakened suspicion in his breast.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evoked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.