How to Use evocation in a Sentence

evocation

noun

• The pain and confusion is all there; the place of peace, quiet and open air still in need of evocation.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2022
• In fact, the evocation of that event comes at roughly a halfway point in the museum.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2021
• Its strands are enveloped in a confit that extracts the purest evocation of tomato.
  — David Prior, CNT, 20 Sep. 2017
• Falla’s evocations are of his own time and place, not a trucking in allegories.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
• As an evocation of a different era, the movie is quite wonderful.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 23 June 2017
• The second way that the film brings the interview to life is in the evocation of the day being described.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
• The ending of his book is a beautiful evocation of peace—a riotous man’s homage to stillness.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
• The razor sharp line between dark and light strictly separates the evocation of night from day.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
• After all, that's what vanilla is all about; not generic, one-note body sprays, but an evocation of sweetness and love.
  — Rachel Krause, Allure, 8 Nov. 2022
• Autun exists in the book like an evocation, a dream place, eternal and yet always slipping away.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2018
• For all the fond evocation of time and place, kitsch and culture, this is a movie about dread — about the demons in the hills sharpening their knives.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2019
• But back to cool torch bearer and now, finally, an evocation of Les Miz!
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• Perhaps her greatest talent was the clear evocation of thinking in a crisis.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• The evocation of paradise lingers through their summer outing, which pulses with life, hope and feeling.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
• But most of the show shares Goya’s grim realism, with unflinching evocations of war, death, and pain.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
• Fitzgerald’s evocation of his time and the poetic quality of his prose.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2018
• More often, the evocation is more a matter of feeling and spirit, a kind of low-key, pensive rapture.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• These evocations of the French master in a daily newspaper are not the stuff of flattery.
  — Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
• Precision can be the enemy of evocation, and evoking is what Smith seeks to do.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• Their language mimics the essence of things, evocations of items and experiences.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• Sure, there are jokes interspersed, but the scene is a loving evocation of a specific place, time, and culture.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
• The second somewhat more subtle evocation of the Cold War is via horror tropes.
  — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 8 July 2019
• This soup is Manning’s milieu, and her evocation of it is agile and granular.
  — Jordy Rosenberg, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• The Bell Jar may be the most famous evocation of depression in fiction.
  — Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 14 May 2020
• And feel the tremendous power of Ferrante’s evocation of a bygone era in Italy?
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 18 Nov. 2018
• Richard Linklater's fond evocation of the last day of school in a small Texas town is one of the greatest high school movies ever.
  — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Mar. 2022
• Confronted with that duality, the works are a soft and somber evocation of the cruelty of the world.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
• His is the microcosmic life at the center of the show’s macrocosmic evocations.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• There’s that evocation of childhood again — one that comes naturally for Harbour.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 June 2026
• In the early Seventies, demand for gauzy evocations of the past was nearly endless.
  — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026