EVOCATIVE in a Sentence

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Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks.

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 Meanings and Examples of EVOCATIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
evocative
 a.  tending to call up emotions, memories
Classic Sentence:
1  Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
2  This word crime overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
Example Sentence:
1  Scent can be remarkably evocative: the aroma of pipe tobacco evokes the memory of my father.