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
• Scenes set in the '50s had a look evocative of Kodachrome, and those in the '60s, of Ektachrome.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2020
• The purple cap is evocative of dreams and the vast reaches of space.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• Both books are evocative of Beaumont and the Gulf Coast.
  — Dallas News, 23 July 2019
• 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
• From there, each model's hair is piled atop their head in a style evocative of the 1800s.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
• 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
• And, well, heck if these phones aren’t evocative of onion and garlic.
  — Sam Byford, The Verge, 8 July 2019
• The look was evocative of the classic stylings of glamorous Motown girl groups from the 1960s.
  — Julia Teti, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
• Bai made the evocative costumes out of netting, clay, and more.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• 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, 29 Nov. 2021
• 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
• But somehow the term seems timeworn, and not at all evocative of the pleasures of the table.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2019
• The taste is evocative enough to bring me back to that night in 2016, and to keep my link to that world — my pre-covid career and self — alive.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• Gomes’s life story was as evocative as any work of art.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
• 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 flavors were just as evocative as the tart roadside berries gave way to notes of basil and rosehip tea.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2019
• Here are the best, most evocative responses the actors had to their fates.
  — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 27 May 2019
• 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
• Then to dress the leaves with an equatorial fruit evocative of blue skies and green seas and balmy ease?
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 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
• The evocative blend is rounded out with rosemary, olive oil, pine needles, and a hint of red clay.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2025
• In art history, few names are as evocative as Claude Monet.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025