How to Use evince in a Sentence

evince

verb
  • She evinced an interest in art at an early age.
  • For his part, Kobach has evinced all the legal skills of a marmoset.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Neither man evinces the slightest clue about how to fight it.
    Robert Mann, NOLA.com, 9 June 2017
  • The power of activism is best evinced by Nepal’s jump in the rankings, according to Flores.
    NBC News, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The Biden books, with striking consistency, evince a pride in how much can be left unsaid.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Denny’s would be, too, evincing insights the others don’t.
    Greg Dobbs, The Denver Post, 28 May 2017
  • Even his handwriting seemed to evince a vast inner solitude.
    László F. Földényi, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • During his final years on Earth, King evinced some sympathy for the latter view.
    Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Apr. 2018
  • And that may explain why Mr. Posen evinced little interest in fame and fortune.
    New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • Al had evinced interest from Notre Dame and Holy Cross for both basketball and football.
    Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2018
  • But to the extent that the Lusk play evinces any real anxiety, the participants don’t seem to notice.
    Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Most politicians yearn for the kind of human understanding that Conway evinced on the campaign trail.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 1 Apr. 2017
  • At no point does David Brooks evince any particular engagement with any of these sources.
    Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 5 June 2019
  • And yet many Asian analysts and political leaders evince a degree of calm over the prospect of a second Trump term.
    Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 26 June 2024
  • Her Anna — thwarted at work as well as at home — evinces desperation at all times.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • For months, rivals have nipped at his heels, evincing an I-can’t-believe-I’m-losing-to-this guy incredulity.
    Time, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Record-breaking inflation and shortages evince the wisdom of Mr. Manchin’s counsel to slow the process so the economy can digest the Covid spending.
    Bobby Jindal, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • For them, the skulls—and the entire practice of human sacrifice—evinced the Mexica's barbarism and justified laying waste to the city in 1521.
    Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2018
  • Virginia’s Senate Democrats have evinced no special fondness for Asians.
    Wai Wah Chin, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • With Iran and other cosigners of the deal evincing no enthusiasm to do so, the agreement is still in mortal danger.
    Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Mayor Eddie DeLoach says — and its historic downtown, which once evinced a tatty charm, has been burnished to a high gloss.
    Richard Fausset, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Some expected those tensions to evince themselves once again when the coronavirus struck.
    Gordon F. Sander, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2020
  • At the time, Gergiev evinced little interest in politics.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The installation evinces an acute awareness of the optics of reflection.
    Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
  • These and other comments evince the cynicism that always defined the invasion of Afghanistan.
    Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Despite these modern underpinnings, Land Rover says the new Defender is just as capable as the old one off-road, as evinced by some of the photos in the gallery above.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2019
  • One of America’s best crime novelists, Winslow, an Irish Catholic kid who found fortune later in life, can, when the politics strike him, evince the heart of a fighter.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Still, the Clippers have evinced a confidence that a team whose urgency and focus could wane will be locked in come Sunday’s playoff opener.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • For days, all America’s allies had to go on were Trump tweets; and those did not evince an appetite for accommodation.
    Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Democratic voters now evince more sympathy for the Palestinians than the Israelis.
    Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2024

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