How to Use evocative in a Sentence

evocative

adjective

• He wrote a powerful and evocative biography.
• Each of the Clans is detailed in the book through dozens of pieces of evocative art.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• The best, most evocative lines of the play happen here, right at the close.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 June 2022
• Unusual flutes and the sounds of seashells added to the evocative sounds of Talokan.
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• Diaz is thrilled about the evocative new spot right in the heart of the action.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
• Scenes set in the '50s had a look evocative of Kodachrome, and those in the '60s, of Ektachrome.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2020
• The purple cap is evocative of dreams and the vast reaches of space.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• Of all the folkloric names borne by full moons, this may be the best known and most evocative.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
• His mission was to preserve the evocative sounds that had caught his ear in the first place.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2022
• From there, each model's hair is piled atop their head in a style evocative of the 1800s.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
• Scroll through, read some of the brand's evocative descriptions of their scents, and pick up the one that speaks to you.
  — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 28 Nov. 2022
• The look was evocative of the classic stylings of glamorous Motown girl groups from the 1960s.
  — Julia Teti, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
• Bai made the evocative costumes out of netting, clay, and more.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• On the whole, the home is a quietly evocative mishmash.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 29 Mar. 2023
• Joséphine wore a plain white gown evocative of a wedding dress.
  — Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• But somehow the term seems timeworn, and not at all evocative of the pleasures of the table.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2019
• The taste is evocative enough to bring me back to that night in 2016, and to keep my link to that world — my pre-covid career and self — alive.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• Gomes’s life story was as evocative as any work of art.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
• It’s all draped in an evocative sepia tone, more home-carved and burnished than late-night noir.
  — Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
• The flavors were just as evocative as the tart roadside berries gave way to notes of basil and rosehip tea.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2019
• The music is so evocative and transports you somewhere else, to a place that feels safe.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 3 May 2022
• By night, take in the sound of Memphis; hearing the city can be even more evocative than seeing it.
  — Shelby Knick, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Then to dress the leaves with an equatorial fruit evocative of blue skies and green seas and balmy ease?
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• Janey’s vision of the beaten horse is just one of the text’s many evocative images of pain, which becomes the book’s great theme.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• The council voted to change the name to Belfield Drive, which might be less scary but is not nearly as evocative.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020
• At night, the poppies catch the light and cast an evocative glow into the courtyard below.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
• Writing in the hard news and the enterprise stories was strong and evocative.
  — Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2020
• These are some of the most evocative memories of my childhood.
  — Leila Najafi, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2021
• Told in short, powerful chapters that are always in the present tense, Walger shares evocative details about her dad, a charismatic rogue who, among his exploits, took up skydiving in his late 50s.
  — Erik Pedersen, Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2025
• And the show’s jittery surrealism feels more evocative of contemporary paranoia than the flawed realism of so many recent thrillers (ahem, Zero Day, ahem).
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025