Sample Sentences for
allude
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    As I've been alluding to, my one saving grace is distraction.  (source)
    alluding = indirectly referring
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    In 1973, Bill posted an enigmatic letter alluding vaguely to plans for an extended trip and then disappeared without a trace; to this day nobody knows what became of him.  (source)
    alluding = making an indirect reference
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    Halliday was alluding to a famous '70s hacker named John Draper, better known by the alias Captain Crunch.  (source)
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    The Japanese military, he said, provides women for its soldiers, an allusion to the thousands of Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, and Filipino women whom the Japanese military had kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery.  (source)
    allusion = indirect reference
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    He alluded to last night only by asking how Phineas was; I said he seemed to be in good spirits.  (source)
    alluded = indirectly referenced
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    The painting's well-documented collage of double entendres and playful allusions had been revealed in most art history tomes, and yet, incredibly, the public at large still considered her smile a great mystery.  (source)
    allusions = indirect references
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.
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    You can allude to Fulke Greville, but you'd have to provide your own footnotes.  (source)
    allude = indirectly reference
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    He saw me and crossed the room, and we made small talk for several minutes, neither of us acknowledging that we hadn't seen each other in half a decade, neither of us alluding to why.  (source)
    alluding = indirectly referring
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    I should like to know who they are...[Alludes to CHARACTERS].†  (source)
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    'In the place where there is no darkness,' he said, as though he had recognized the allusion.  (source)
    allusion = reference
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    We had talked around him, alluded to him without quite mentioning him.  (source)
    alluded = indirectly referred
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    Her allusions to her son were few and...  (source)
    allusions = indirect references
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    Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement?  (source)
    allude = to make an indirect reference
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