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adjective

evocative

bringing back strong memories, pictures or feelings

In a sentence

Six example sentences with evocative, each labelled with its topic.

  • Grainy prints of empty diners at dawn are evocative enough that viewers claim they can smell the coffee.

    Photography

  • The opening cello line of the score is so evocative that listeners picture rain on a station platform.

    Music

  • Her descriptions of the market are evocative, summoning heat, dust, and the cries of fruit sellers in one paragraph.

    Literature

  • The smell of cardamom is so evocative for her that one whiff returns her to a grandmother's kitchen in Kerala.

    Cooking

  • The old station's evocative signage, hand painted in three languages, sends visitors straight back to the age of steam.

    Travel

  • The architect wanted an evocative facade, so the ridged concrete recalls the grain silos that once stood on the site.

    Architecture

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