How to Use evocative in a Sentence

evocative

adjective

• He wrote a powerful and evocative biography.
• Winter is gray and rainy, showing Istanbul at its most moody and evocative.
  — Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2021
• The words were evocative and moving and the bubbles and puppets got dozens of small children up on their feet to watch and interact.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2021
• Analogies, metaphors, similes, and the like are evocative and memorable.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2021
• But the dad hat is more evocative of a vibe, a generational aesthetic and a vague sense of giving up than any of those other contenders.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
• Most of Clive’s treasures are housed in evocative, Mughal-style display cabinets, which were built in the nineteen-eighties.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• The style of the animation is especially evocative at rendering these feelings as art.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas and John Maher, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• For example, a student used an intentionally varied, steady stream of evocative claims about themselves.
  — Kristen Moon, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
• The idea of white female beauty as the impregnable standard in Western art is only one of the questions raised by this endlessly evocative painting.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• His keen observations about human nature, made in evocative prose, suffuse each page, and his characters prove endearing and memorable.
  — Stefanie Milligan, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• At night, the poppies catch the light and cast an evocative glow into the courtyard below.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
• These are some of the most evocative memories of my childhood.
  — Leila Najafi, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2021
• As for the denim mini skirt, the piece is mall babe to the core, and evocative of Abercrombie & Fitch’s heyday.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2022
• Tonally and maybe lyrically, this one’s a bit sad, or at least, to me, evocative of a kind of darkness.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
• There’s something about Tim Platt that is evocative of Steve Martin early on.
  — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024