Example Sentences

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“I knew that really what I was evoking with the Pachuco was one of the gods of the Aztec pantheon,” Valdez explains.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2023

True to Gozzi, Puccini was evoking stock types out of commedia dell’arte.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2021

Once, I audibly gasped at how the cropping shape I’d applied to a photo of Jessica Chastain aligned so nicely with the mood she was evoking.

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2018

Not since Brando had a performance unleashed such lethal, unapologetic, muscular power — and Brando was the figure De Niro was evoking with his cheesy nightclub act in the film’s final stages.

From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2018

Unknown to him, the Eastern mother in her was evoking, already, the Eastern spirit of worship in her son.

From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud