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• The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.From the entry cut
• I was able to keep up with the herd and evade the Beast.2019, Conrad Taylor, PATH to FREEDOM: My Story of Perseverance. From the entry beast
• To maintain stealth, SSBNs would first have to evade any adversary picket submarines lying offshore.2014, James R. Holmes, “Strategic Features of the South China Sea”, in Naval War College Review, volume 67, number 2, page 45. From the entry Sanya
• In the Germania, then, the transrhenane environment consistently evades and confounds our gaze.2014, Zoë M. Tan, “Subversive Geography in Tacitus' Germania”, in Journal of Roman Studies, 104, p. 199. From the entry transrhenane
• A suspected murderer who evaded police for 18 years has been captured in Lichuan, Xinzhou.org reports.2014 December 28, Mandy Zuo, “Exploding electric hot-water bottle maims woman”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry Yuanping
• Gasping, nearly overcome from evading the swinging claws, she thrust the fork into the plum-colored mouth.2002 November 8, Midge Shusta, “Moon of the Green Mountain Mornings”, in Tsali’s Hatchet, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry plum-colored
• This otherhood, itself based on solidarity with other human beings, provides the difference which evades paradox.1994, Norbert Wiley, The Semiotic Self, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry otherhood
• So if you fire the Phoenix inside that radius, he just can't evade it.1987, Tom Clancy, Patriot Games, page 449. From the entry gee
• We've been evading that conclusion because it seems—er—pulpy and penny-dreadfulish; but you can't get around it.1936, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 250. From the entry penny-dreadfulish
• The primary suspect evaded police but was found and arrested on Sunday morning in Tainan’s Syuejia District, reported UDN.2023 December 3, Duncan DeAeth, “Suspect in shooting death of 43-year-old man arrested in south Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the…. From the entry Syuejia
• The nostalgic appeal and cosy image of knitting also accounts for the yarn bomber's ability to evade the authorities.2010 October 10, Maddy Costa, “The graffiti knitting epidemic”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media…. From the entry yarn bomber
• It becomes an illusory dream that always evades the fearer while holding him or her tightly in its tyranny.2009, Poul F. Guttesen, Leaning Into the Future: The Kingdom of God in the Theology of Jürgen Moltmann and in the Book of Revelation…. From the entry fearer
• You can also walk with your gun out, as this will limit your speed, allowing you do evade the proxies.2006, "eatyourmumshead", Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: Online Mode FAQ http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/924556/43994. From the entry proxy
• It had happened so quickly that I had no chance of evading the stream of tea that came rushing towards me.2005, Konye Njoroge, Mworia the Warrior, East African Publishers, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry screaming match
• Labor of mind facilitly may be evaded by imitation: for, so, sollicitude of mind conducive to invention becomes supervacuous.2004, Frederick William Rolfe, Don Renato: An Ideal Content, Kessinger Publishing, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry supervacuous
• It is a shocking situation when a dangerous criminal can walk free by evading recapture for a month."1994 May 14, James Cusick, “Loophole gives knifeman freedom”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 18 Jul 2014. From the entry the law is an ass
• The story is purely “Potteresque”: a morality tale in which the inescapable moral is neatly evaded. . . .1974 March 6, Jennifer Farley Smith, The Christian Science Monitor, page F2; quoted in Ann Block and Carolyn Riley, editors, Children’s…. From the entry Potteresque
• His defeated name remained in bronze on the school record plaque, while Finny deliberately evaded an athletic honor.1959, John Knowles, chapter 3, in A Separate Peace. From the entry fool's paradise
• There were evaded, criticized, abandoned, because it was felt that they interfered with the exploitation of the means of production.1936, Harold Laski, “The Rise of European Liberalism”, in Collected Works of Harold Laski, London: Routledge, published 1997, page 20. From the entry exploitation
• They were evaded, criticized, abandoned, because it was felt that they interfered with the exploitation of the means of production.1936, Harold J[oseph] Laski, “The Background”, in The Rise of European Liberalism: An Essay in Interpretation, London: George Allen &…. From the entry middle ages
• By this transfer, the Pope points out, every danger of a collision, which might become very embarrassing, is evaded.1920, Francis Sales Betten, The Roman Index of Forbidden Books. From the entry prevention
• You may evade, dodge or lie out of your taxes, but Death will not be deceived or denied.1908, The Insurance Age, volume 36, page 445. From the entry sure as death and taxes
• It's a seizure even if the suspect refuses to stop, evades capture, and rides off into the sunset never to be seen again.2021, Torres v. Madrid (U.S. Supreme Court No. 19-292), Justice Gorsuch dissenting. From the entry ride off into the sunset
• More than half of the Task Force was cast into the void and died; the final, real death they had evaded for years.2019 August 26, qntm, “Unthreaded”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry blow away
• Well, the chinless wonder in question broke out through a snatch squad and evaded capture as neatly as any field op in the Network.2012 July 9, Charles Stross, The Apocalypse Codex: Book 4 in The Laundry Files, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry wonder
• Not only did Carré state that she could covertly contact a pianiste, but this man had also managed to evade capture by the Germans!2012, Debra Milligan, The Dawn. From the entry pianiste
• Everton defender Distin then demonstrated neat footwork to evade a succession of challenges inside the area before sending a rising, angled effort narrowly off target.2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2012. From the entry footwork
• Unable to evade this, he drove into it, and his gallant mount breasted up and held its feet all the way across.1922, Emerson Hough, The Covered Wagon. From the entry breast up
• The object of this company in taking their conveyance from the Indians in the form of a lease was to evade the preëmptive right.1904, Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.), Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society, p289. From the entry preëmptive
• In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves.1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, page 301. From the entry concomitant
• By the time I reacted, this particular rangale, having evaded death by a mere hair's breadth, was disappearing downhill on the other side of the road.2026, Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Savvy Summers and the Po'boy Perils: A Mystery, St. Martin's Publishing Group. From the entry rangale
• Patterns incised on this mineral form seem to evade the eye; you have to stand at a certain distance, and in a particular light, to make them out.1993, Carol Shields, chapter 2, in The Stone Diaries, Toronto, Ont.: Random House of Canada, page 64. From the entry impediment
• The Marxist theoretical totalization of history in forms of male domination reducible to waged labor in historical modes of production evades the problematic of domination in gender relations.1992, Carmen Luke, “Feminist Politics in Radical Pedagogy”, in Feminisms and Critical Pedagogy, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30. From the entry monogendered
• The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 33”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry make one's bed and lie in it
• After “living the life of Riley” for over a year, successfully evading the pitchforks and the bullets of the farmers, whose fields she ravaged in all four seasons.1911, “Bullet Ends Life of Famous Wild Cow”, The Hartford Courant, December 1911. From the entry life of Riley
• "China will pay a price if it is seen as assisting Russia — either providing a direct assistance, particularly military assistance, or assisting Russia in evading sanctions," Chollet told VOA.[2022 April 29, Nike Ching, “US: No Sign Russia-Ukraine Negotiations Will Bear Fruit”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on…. From the entry pay the price
• Glasgow's Sea Darts failed to lock on to the attackers, but the Sea Wolfs from Brilliant shot down one Skyhawk while another attacker crashed while trying to evade the missiles.2013, Jim Keys, Fighting Brits, page 255. From the entry lock on

Meaning of evade

1. verb To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
2. verb To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
3. verb To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

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How do you use evade in a sentence?

Evade is used as a verb. For example: “He evaded his opponent's blows.”

What is a short sentence with evade?

“He evaded his opponent's blows.”

What does evade mean?

Evade means to get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.