Sentence examples for an evocative word from inspiring English sources

Revolutionary is an evocative word.

"American" was an evocative word for a movie title as recently as 1999, when American Beauty and American Pie were riding high at the global box office.

It is just an evocative word to label a mysterious force of which we do not know and we are not told how to find out anything at all.

This sentence from "Tinkers," by Paul Harding, shows how taking time to find the right verb pays off: "The forest had nearly wicked from me that tiny germ of heat allotted to each person…." Wick is an evocative word that nicely gets across the essence of a more commonplace verb like sucked or drained.

Such an evocative word in any lexicon.

"Barbecue" is an evocative word.

These celebrated artists would kill for a felicitous phrase, a perfectly evocative word -- or a round of sex.

It's a gorgeous, evocative word, conjuring powerful images of a life well lived.

Some dads take their boys fishing or to the ballgame or to a movie like this one, but the McClanes prefer a more primal form of bonding — killing miscreants, though Pop McClane uses a more evocative word.

"Partouze" is a peculiarly evocative word, nearly onomatopoeic: if you happen to know both French and English it sounds like a coupling of partout ("everywhere") and "ooze" - Millet's preference exactly.

A well-placed adverb can be delightful, but much of the time the adverbs we use are already implied by the verb or adjective or would be if we had chosen a more evocative word.