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evocatively

American  
[i-vahk-uh-tiv-lee] / ɪˈvɑk ə tɪv li /

adverb

  1. in a way that readily evokes scenes, images, and feelings for the reader, listener, or viewer; strikingly, suggestively.


Example Sentences

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Even as Ms. Back writes searchingly and evocatively about her suffering, she finds that narrative prose cannot depict the “black pit of depression, a landscape marked by lacunae.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Ms Lahiri has written evocatively of how the two have been in a "long-distance relationship while being in the same city", meeting across a glass partition in prison and talking on the intercom.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

Not a few prehistoric finds have been attributed, evocatively if not accurately, to the work of ancient cannibals.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023

Akunyili Crosby’s compositions include paintings, photographic transfers from archival Nigerian magazines and more that result in “visual tapestries of contemporary life that evocatively express the intricacies of African diasporic identity,” says the gallery.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2023

Voices from present and past speak here evocatively.

From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von