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How to use evince in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb

Evince means to show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest. Example: “But the mulatto was too good a gambler to evince any discomfiture.”

Examples of evince by meaning

verbTo show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.

  • But the mulatto was too good a gambler to evince any discomfiture.1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1928, pages 89–90
  • When Mrs C. described this to me the next day she shuddered all over, but also evinced, in her manner and choice of words, an unmistakable relish.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, New York: Vintage, published 1999, page 169
  • Bare reportage cannot convey the deep hatred sometimes evinced between men through the simplest address.1992, Adam Thorpe, Ulverton, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1994, page 239

More sentences with evince

  • Rochdale socialists, for example, evinced an equally keen interest in municipalism within the context of socialist unity.2019 July 31, David James, Centennial History of the Independent Labour Party, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry municipalism
  • H is priestly, evincing concern for cultic sacrifices, cultic observances, the behavior of priests, and ethical matters.2015, Jason M. H. Gaines, The Poetic Priestly Source, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 277. From the entry h
  • The air traffic controllers, however, evinced little interest in an anticompensation view.1988, Sylvia Noble Tesh, Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy, page 109. From the entry anticompensation
  • It is an a posteriori argument, evincing the fact, but not the how.1924, Joseph Rickaby, Studies on God and His Creatures, page 102. From the entry how
  • The Greek and Sanskrit languages (along with many other languages of ancient Eurasia) evince correspondences explained by their descent from a common ancestor, Proto-Indo-European (PIE).2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The…. From the entry pie
  • PIE and its earliest-attested descendants evince a number of isoglosses with the Semitic languages of West Asia, indicating borrowing in one direction or another.2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The…. From the entry isogloss
  • Obviously the matter was investigated in the magistrate’s court, and, evincing controversy, was passed on to the starostynsʹkyj court, as to a higher authority.2004, Ната́лія Є́мець [Natalia Jemetz], transl., edited by Dennis Soltys, The Ukrainian City in the XV to mid-XVII Centuries: Traditions…. From the entry starostynskyi
  • Notwithstanding that admonition, they do choose to answer; and, in so doing, they evince ultroneity to a degree that is highly suspicious.1901, John Rankine, The Scots Revised Reports: Court of Session, Second Series. From the entry ultroneity
  • The verbivorous author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll evinced a prodigious talent for merging two words and beheading parts of one or both.2012, Richard Lederer, Amazing Words. From the entry verbivorous
  • Arthur Rimbaud, in a hotel dining room where, though indulging in a Barmecide feast before empty plates and glasses, he evinces the most evident signs of gastronomic enjoyment.1935, Milton H Stansbury, “The Surrealists”, in French Novelists of Today, University of Pennsylvania Press, pages 121-136. From the entry Barmecide feast
  • Some actually struck the monster, evinced by the sprays of black mucus that shot out behind it, but it didn't seem to notice as it strode menacingly in Porkchop's direction.2022 October 24, Kothardarastrix [pseudonym], “A Nightmare on 17th Street”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2024. From the entry yippee ki-yay
  • But the other great Order of preaching friars, the Franciscans, evinced an interest in Lull, and Lullism in its later history is very often to be found associated with Franciscans.1966, Frances A. Yates, chapter 8, in The Art of Memory, Pimlico, published 2001, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry Lullism

Meaning of evince

  1. verb To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.

Full definition of evince

Questions about evince in a sentence

How do you use evince in a sentence?
Evince is used as a verb. For example: “But the mulatto was too good a gambler to evince any discomfiture.”
What is a short sentence with evince?
“But the mulatto was too good a gambler to evince any discomfiture.”
What does evince mean?
Evince means to show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.

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