Sentence examples for evoked from inspiring English sources

The word 'evoked' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has brought forth feelings, memories, or ideas. For example: His speech evoked feelings of joy and hope in the crowd.

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evoked

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Past of evoke

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This is the stain on our soul that prime minister Keating so movingly evoked at Redfern 21 years ago.

Working through the experience in art has evoked a "hard feeling" in McIvor.

Twice in recent years, Abbott has evoked in parliament Keating's 1992 Redfern speech, which remains the high water mark in national political acknowledgment of past crimes against Indigenous people.

Unlike Toby Jones's Hitch in The Girl, which physically and vocally evoked the director very convincingly, Hopkins relies, as with his Nixon, on a few tics, some prosthetic fakery, and just lives the man, pink, pale, blinking and blimpish, held up by iron certainty in his own talents.

Marco Rubio evoked John F Kennedy's new frontier, Carly Fiorina took her expected shots at Hillary Clinton and Lindsey Graham seemed as much like Henny Youngman playing the Borscht Belt as a presidential candidate on the stump.

Songs such as Blitzkrieg Bop (which Tommy co-wrote), Sheena is a Punk Rocker and Rockaway Beach epitomised their gift for distilling melody and lyrics into ferociously concentrated doses, while Teenage Lobotomy or Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue evoked the aura of dumb leather-jacketed delinquency crucial to the Ramones mystique.

Coming the day after the notorious menu at the Liberal fundraising dinner that boasted "Julia Gallard Kentucky friend quail: small breasts, huge thighs and a big red box", it all evoked a right-wing fantasy of a pre-feminist Australia populated by limp-wristed crimpers and sheilas who knew their place.

Indeed, most of the more radical ideas put forward by Mr Abe's committees failed to make it into the strategy announced on June 5th, which instead evoked the long tradition of multi-year economic plans.

Sanjay Gandhi, a thuggish scion of the ruling dynasty, organised vasectomy camps near Delhi one doctor boasted he could perform 40 sterilisations an hour.In the 1990s, though, economic liberalisers evoked the experiences of East Asia and the demographic dividend it benefited from when previously high fertility rates began to decline.

Both the "greasily damp" London streets of the 1900s and the starched hospital rooms of the 1970s are convincingly evoked, while the details of the inner workings of psychiatric wards their drugs, methods and changing ideologies have been extensively researched.Two things give the novel coherence.

Parts of Britain, particularly those well-served by current links, will see fewer and slower services to the capital once the new line is running.The idea of super-fast trains is beguiling: Ms Greening has evoked the Victorians, who built Britain's existing (and still rather good) network.

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