evoke
verb (used with object)
to call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.).
has been evoking
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present perfect progressiveof evoke (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The pianist who has been evoking that sort of reception for a month from Riga to Kiev is a far cry from the saturnine dandy with the "Florentine profile."
From Time Magazine Archive
Plaints of supplication are heard through the door of a chamber in which Prelati has been evoking the Devil.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
But suddenly the string from whichxxv he has been evoking these broad harmonies snaps with a snarl.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce
