evoke
verb (used with object)
to call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.).
were evoking
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past progressiveof evoke.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Desire, dreams, even in him were evoking calculations not as sound as those which ordinarily generated in his brain.
From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser
At last he stood in the sunlight, with his arms outstretched, as though he were evoking his vision from the heavens to take shape upon the stage.
From Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists by Gilbert Cannan
Or rather, baffled in their endeavour, they were evoking out of the unseen, heaven knew what fantastic structure of intrigue—scrawling over the innocent page with burning evidences of perfidy and collusion....
From The Fruit of the Tree by Alonzo Kimball
