"evoke associations" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the act of reminding a person of something, either through a feeling or a set of ideas. For example, "The smell of freshly baked bread in the morning evoked associations of my grandmother's kitchen."
Another concern is the synesthetic effect of sounds, that is, sounds chosen because they evoke associations with the other senses (sight, taste, touch, smell).
For instance, the action of Joyce's Ulysses (1922) takes place in Dublin in a 24-hour period, but the events of the day evoke associations that take the reader back and forth through the characters' past and present lives.
Technically faithful to a centuries-old craft tradition, Ms. Schaechter's layered and puzzled-together glassworks have almost excessively rich colors and patterns, along with iconic compositions that evoke associations from medieval Christianity to the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
Reclining in her champagne-hued home, Orman, with her golden hair, her tan, her chunky gold earrings and her bronze-hued jacket, looked, as she often does, as if she were dressed to evoke associations with wealth, not through luxury brands, but through sheer color scheme.
What's important and impressive, however, is an interpretation that manages to evoke associations in the first place, rather than just being notes dropped into the air on one side of the hall and matter-of-factly received at the other.
The miniseries, which spans a period of 20 years beginning in 1921, is yet another "Masterpiece Theatre" attempt, like the superior "Duchess of Duke Street," to evoke associations with its most famous triumph, "Upstairs, Downstairs". And here again is that continuing English-TV obsession with class, as in upper and lower.
Both in the real and in the simulated urban neighborhood, signs of disorder evoked associations with social disorder.
"For some Jews, the sight of thousands of supporters waving their fists in anger as Trump incited against Muslims and urged a blanket ban on their entry to the United States could have evoked associations with beer halls in Munich a century ago," he wrote.
"For some Jews, the sight of thousands of supporters waving their fists in anger as Trump incited against Muslims and urged a blanket ban on their entry to the United States could have evoked associations with beer halls in Munich a century ago," Shalev wrote in the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz.
Indeed, for some devoted business owners, retirement often evokes associations to death.
We observed in our association data that the euphemism special needs evokes associations to special education, Special Olympics, and other special programs.
