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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of evoke.

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  • adjective called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation

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Examples

  • The word evoked connotations of an elite society in which Khalil was an esteemed member.

    Stealing Candy Allison Hobbs 2010

  • The word evoked connotations of an elite society in which Khalil was an esteemed member.

    Stealing Candy Allison Hobbs 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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?

    THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF 2010

  • 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

  • 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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