Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
evoke .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation
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Examples
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The word evoked connotations of an elite society in which Khalil was an esteemed member.
Stealing Candy Allison Hobbs 2010
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The word evoked connotations of an elite society in which Khalil was an esteemed member.
Stealing Candy Allison Hobbs 2010
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In the late sixties, Aunt Stormy had bought her cottage in North Sea because the name evoked the German North Sea for her.
The Worst Thing I've Done Ursula Hegi 2007
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Despite the elder Bush’s passive construction, the phrase evoked the Alamo legend, in which William Barret Travis, besieged by a Mexican army, used his sword to draw a line in the ground or sand, saying, “Those prepared to die for freedom’s cause, come across to me.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Despite the elder Bush’s passive construction, the phrase evoked the Alamo legend, in which William Barret Travis, besieged by a Mexican army, used his sword to draw a line in the ground or sand, saying, “Those prepared to die for freedom’s cause, come across to me.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Despite the elder Bush’s passive construction, the phrase evoked the Alamo legend, in which William Barret Travis, besieged by a Mexican army, used his sword to draw a line in the ground or sand, saying, “Those prepared to die for freedom’s cause, come across to me.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Despite the elder Bush’s passive construction, the phrase evoked the Alamo legend, in which William Barret Travis, besieged by a Mexican army, used his sword to draw a line in the ground or sand, saying, “Those prepared to die for freedom’s cause, come across to me.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Who cared for tradition in these days, when spirits could be evoked from black bottles, and black bottles could be evoked from the complaisant white men for a few hours 'sweat or a mangy fur?
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When Tennessee Ernie Ford gave the full weight of his bass-baritone to "Sixteen Tons" and boomed that he owed his soul to the company store, the phrase evoked images of stooped miners living in tar-paper shacks under what Hardy Green calls the "super-exploitative conditions of life in a coal-mining company town."
The Labor of Living 2010
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Once again Dane Chandos weaves a vivid Mexican tapestry of the same charm, color, humor and veracity that evoked from the readers of his first book, Village in the Sun, such a unanimously rapturous response ..
Dane Chandos Books 2008
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