EVOCATIVE in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of EVOCATIVE
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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 (V3) 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.