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
• 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
• But even without the app, the films are evocative enough to be understood through imagery alone.
  — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
• The evocative scene, a turning point for the character, is essential to the final film.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• The often evocative observations of the world around them are the author’s, not theirs.
  — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• The name is evocative of being connected to the sea while being firmly grounded and at one with the land.
  — Michaela Trimble, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2024
• The restaurant aims to serve food evocative of what Smaili grew up eating as a child in her grandmother’s kitchen in Bangkok.
  — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
• With its surprising turns from one voice-over to the next, the film presents a swirling, evocative variety of insights.
  — The New Yorker, 1 June 2022
• The image is so evocative that Netflix has used it in the marketing for the final season.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Not only is the ranch house evocative of the house in 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but there are alien trinkets on sale at the ranch's souvenir kiosk.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2022
• The video was evocative of the arrest of George Floyd in 2020 and officers’ failure to intervene.
  — Adrian Sainz, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2023
• The frock featured a rounded neckline with a plume evocative of Victorian-era style, which mimicked the cuffs at the end of the dress’ long sleeves.
  — Julia Teti, WWD, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024