EVOCATIVE in a Sentence
Learn EVOCATIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for EVOCATIVE, such as:
1. Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks.
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Meanings and Examples of EVOCATIVE
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evocative
a. tending to call up emotions, memories
Classic Sentence:
1 Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks.
2 This word crime overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept.
Example Sentence:
1 Scent can be remarkably evocative: the aroma of pipe tobacco evokes the memory of my father.