Evaded

Examples

• Unable to answer this question in a breath, I evaded it by change of subject. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Children proverbially live in the present; that is not only a fact not to be evaded, but it is an excellence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• 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. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I have tried once or twice, but she either evaded my questions or looked so distressed that I stopped. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This she evaded doing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Amidst the wilds of Tartary and Russia, although he still evaded me, I have ever followed in his track. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Then Lord Decimus evaded and wandered away, while he was getting his man up to the mark. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• They toiled through the sand, charging an enemy who always evaded their charge and rode round them and shot them to pieces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I evaded the question by general answers; that I had satisfied the Emperor and court in all particulars. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Then Mr Merdle evaded, and wandered away. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But the Scythians had no cities, and they evaded a battle, and the war degenerated into a tedious and hopeless pursuit of more mobile enemies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But no, he evaded that. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Here was the show-trial, so long evaded, come on me like a thunder-clap. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The Emperor Frederick II had promised to go upon a crusade, and evaded his vow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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