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evocatively

American  
[i-vahk-uh-tiv-lee] / ɪˈvɑk ə tɪv li /

adverb

  1. in a way that readily evokes scenes, images, and feelings for the reader, listener, or viewer; strikingly, suggestively.


Example Sentences

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An evocatively realized setting such as Ms. Bigelow’s Washington nerve center can be ample reason to make a movie worth seeing, but three others that were overflowing with local atmosphere offered far more than that.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

The world of low-level gamblers is evocatively drawn and Anderson displays an unexpected tenderness to those who inhabit it.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025

You could be aware of the piece’s form — its nine evocatively titled sections, performed as a single, 21-minute movement — or smile at “MAX,” a contraction of “Manny Ax.”

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2024

Ms Lahiri has written evocatively of how the two have been in a "long-distance relationship while being in the same city", meeting across a glass partition in prison and talking on the intercom.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

Voices from present and past speak here evocatively.

From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von