EVADE in a Sentence
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30 example sentences for EVADE, such as:
1. For two weeks they evaded the press.
2. I could tell that he was trying to evade the issue.
3. The refugees evaded capture by hiding in the forest.
4. Her response was simply to evade the problem altogether.
5. If you try to evade paying your taxes you risk going to prison.
2. I could tell that he was trying to evade the issue.
3. The refugees evaded capture by hiding in the forest.
4. Her response was simply to evade the problem altogether.
5. If you try to evade paying your taxes you risk going to prison.
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Meanings and Examples of EVADE
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evade
v. escape, either physically or mentally
v. practice evasion
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 On the other stone were the names of Boyd and Tom with something in Latin which began "Dulce et--" but it meant nothing to Scarlett who had managed to evade Latin at the Fayetteville Academy.
2 How perverse of him to evade the issue so neatly, as if not caring whether children came had anything to do with their actual arrival.
3 She had paused a moment with raised brows, drawing away instinctively from his touch, though she made no effort to evade his words.
4 Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to evade it.
5 Their beams of crimson seemed to get no purchase upon the bodies of their foes; the latter seemed to evade them with ease, and come through, between, around, and about with unopposed skill.
6 It had not been necessary, and the few occasions of its being possible for her to go to the Hall she had contrived to evade and escape from.
7 Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary.
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8 So she gracefully evaded, for the time being, a definite answer as to the duration of her visit and slipped easily into the life of the red-brick house at the quiet end of Peachtree Street.
9 She tried to think the matter to some satisfactory conclusion but, as always, the conclusion evaded her uncomplex mind.
10 She was in fact in urgent and immediate need of money: money to meet the vulgar weekly claims which could neither be deferred nor evaded.
11 But, unwilling to alarm the fears of Alice, she evaded a direct reply, betraying only by her anxious looks fastened on the slightest movements of her captors.
12 Amidst the wilds of Tartary and Russia, although he still evaded me, I have ever followed in his track.
13 Steerforth evaded the question for a little while; looking in scorn and anger on his opponent, and remaining silent.
14 Everyone was kind and civil, but the point evaded seemed to crop up again in the end, and again to bar the way.
15 I have tried once or twice, but she either evaded my questions or looked so distressed that I stopped.
Example Sentence:
1 If you try to evade paying your taxes you risk going to prison.
2 They claim that the wine is for personal use and so evade the duty.
3 I could tell that he was trying to evade the issue.
4 Her response was simply to evade the problem altogether.
5 The truth that men evade there is that this small planet cannot survive a nuclear exchange.
6 He evaded her questions about the war and tried to explain away the atrocities.
7 The refugees evaded capture by hiding in the forest.
8 For two weeks they evaded the press.
9 Yesterday we took care of 11 people who evaded capture, or hid, or escaped, and they were shocked naturally, but were not physically harmed except for some bruises.