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evade as in:  evade the enemy

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  • They traveled at night to evade detection.
    evade = avoid
  • At dusk we move indoors to evade the mosquitoes.
    evade = get away from
  • He moved to Canada in the 1960s in order to evade being drafted into the armed services in the United States.
    evade = avoid
  • And her strategy has been to evade, not attack.   (source)
    evade = physically avoid or get away from
  • Mai tries to punch Hayden, but he easily evades her.   (source)
    evades = gets away from
  • But on approach, the Norden bombsight, not the pilot, flew the plane, so evasive action was impossible.   (source)
    evasive = avoiding attack
  • I hurried from the girls' locker room, pleased to find that I had successfully evaded my retriever friend for the moment.   (source)
    evaded = use cunning or dexterity to physically avoid
  • The men in his legions worshipped him not only for his courage and cunning but for his uncanny ability— to evade death even when facing appalling odds.   (source)
    evade = avoid capture or get away from
  • He wondered vaguely how many others like her there might be in the younger generation people who had grown up in the world of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog.   (source)
    evading = trying to avoid
  • He tries to evade the question, but in the end has to confess, for Kropp tells the same story.   (source)
    evade = avoid
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  • ...suddenly he caught her face between his two hands and kissed her, before really she could evade him.   (source)
    evade = get away from
  • When a prisoner of style escapes it's called an evasion.   (source)
    evasion = physically getting away
  • Certainly there was some deep meaning in it most worthy of interpretation, and which, as it were, streamed forth from the mystic symbol, subtly communicating itself to my sensibilities, but evading the analysis of my mind.   (source)
    evading = escaping
  • Amidst the wilds of Tartary and Russia, although he still evaded me, I have ever followed in his track.   (source)
    evaded = physically avoided or get away from
  • A plan that isn't motivated by the need for flight and evasion.   (source)
    evasion = avoidance (the process of avoiding being found)
  • He fights recklessly, almost frenziedly, and I easily evade his assault.   (source)
    evade = avoid capture or get away from
  • Helene has followed me out of the mess hall, but the fog helps me evade her.   (source)
  • I can hear cries of "To the lake! To the lake!" and know they hope to evade the wasps by taking to the water.   (source)
    evade = get away from
  • He could evade its pangs if he was quick-witted enough: it was chiefly when he showed stupidity that O'Brien pulled the lever.   (source)
    evade = avoid
  • The first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion?   (source)
    evasion = physically getting away
  • --what it was he'd planned to do if the evasion worked all right...   (source)
  • ...and we'll all evade together.   (source)
    evade = get away
  • Don't stop now; don't fool around here, and the evasion booming along so handsome; man the sweeps, and set her loose!   (source)
    evasion = physically getting away
  • Your parents resent you because of all the past they are trying to evade.   (source)
    evade = get away from
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evade as in:  evade the question

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  • She evaded the questions skillfully.
  • Was there any way, any way at all, for her to evade this? Was there another story, or let's face it, another lie, that she'd overlooked?   (source)
    evade = avoid
  • "That's exactly the kind of topic Haymitch told me to steer clear of," I say evasively,   (source)
    evasively = in an attempt to avoid answering the question
  • There was no hint of evasion in Hayden's words.   (source)
    evasion = avoidance of telling the whole truth
  • So she resorted to evasive tactics. She'd tell Dad she hadn't cashed her paycheck yet, or she'd pretend...   (source)
    evasive = avoiding being honest and direct
  • McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well, relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it.   (source)
    evaded = avoided
  • But personally, I think it's clear John Hammond is evading the law.   (source)
    evading = trying to avoid
  • Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults,   (source)
    evasion = avoidance of telling the whole truth
  • His defeated name remained in bronze on the school record plaque, while Finny deliberately evaded an athletic honor.   (source)
    evaded = avoided
  • She is right about my evasiveness.   (source)
    evasiveness = trying to avoid answering a question
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  • HALE: ... There is too much evidence now to deny it. You will agree, sir?
    PROCTOR, evading: I—have no knowledge in that line.   (source)
  • Expectations, evaluations, internal evasions
    Fly out of me like puddles of blood from a wound   (source)
    evasions = instances of avoiding responsibility or recognizing the whole truth
  • "I thought we were past all the evasiveness," I grumbled.   (source)
    evasiveness = the act of trying to avoid answering questions candidly (with direct answers)
  • Which brings me back to my question—the one you so cleverly evaded.   (source)
    evaded = avoided or tried to avoid
  • Though he was cannily evasive on personal details, she was gathering information.   (source)
    evasive = tending to avoid answering questions candidly (with direct answers)
  • ...you are free to think or to evade that effort.   (source)
    evade = try to avoid
  • In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist.   (source)
    evading = trying to avoid
  • He had a weather-beaten face and dark eyes with a slightly evasive expression.   (source)
    evasive = avoiding being honest and direct
  • A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.   (source)
    evasions = instances of avoiding telling the whole truth
  • [when Paul falls down trying to go to the bathroom, but doesn't want to tell the nurse]
    "Have you been dreaming then?" she asks.
    "Perhaps—" I evade.   (source)
    evade = trying to avoid answering a question
  • "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?"
    "She hadn't any right to call me ugly and redheaded," retorted Anne, evasive and defiant.   (source)
    evasive = avoiding the question
  • ...he found Kemerer as respectful and evasive as ever.   (source)
    evasive = avoiding telling the whole truth
  • HEDDA: What sort of a man is your husband, Thea?  I mean--you know--in everyday life. Is he kind to you?
    MRS. ELVSTED: [Evasively.] I am sure he means well in everything.   (source)
    evasively = in a manner that avoids directly answering a question
  • Sir Thomas gave up the point, foiled by her evasions, disarmed by her flattery; and was obliged to rest satisfied with the conviction that where the present pleasure of those she loved was at stake, her kindness did sometimes overpower her judgment.   (source)
    evasions = instances of avoiding responsibility or recognizing the whole truth
  • She is not weepy or evasive, instead there's an urgency about her tone that surprises me.   (source)
    evasive = avoiding recognition of a difficult situation
  • PROCTOR, evading: This woman never thought she done the Devil's work.   (source)
    evading = trying to avoid answering a question
  • Jem's evasion told me our game was a secret, so I kept quiet.   (source)
    evasion = avoidance of telling the whole truth
  • Sitting in the leather chair of the jet, Gennaro thought about how evasive Hammond was.   (source)
    evasive = tending to avoid answering questions candidly (with direct answers)
  • MARY WARREN, evasively, looking at it: Why, I—I think it is mine.   (source)
    evasively = trying to avoid answering a question
  • Of course, if we could obtain examples of their dinosaurs, we could reverse engineer them and make our own, with enough modifications in the DNA to evade their patents.   (source)
    evade = avoid
  • ...and evasion simply muddles 'em.   (source)
    evasion = avoidance of telling the whole truth
  • A stubborn evasiveness. ... And, in the end, a complete refusal to deal with the situation that now faced the park.   (source)
    evasiveness = avoidance of a responsibility (in this case, not dealing with a difficult situation)
  • HALE: You cannot evade me, Abigail.   (source)
    evade = avoid answering
  • ELIZABETH, unable to restrain herself: ... I do think you are suspecting me somewhat? Are you not?
    HALE, obviously disturbed—and evasive: Goody Proctor, I do not judge you.   (source)
    evasive = avoiding telling the whole truth
  • "I don't know yet," she said evasively.   (source)
    evasively = in a manner that avoided answering directly
  • She did not try to evade responsibility for her error.
  • his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible
  • To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.   (source)
  • As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.   (source)
  • Now Rogers' eyes evaded his.   (source)
    evaded = avoided
  • "What did you pick the cherry branches for?"
    "Surely I can pick cherry blossom if I want to!" he replied evasively—and after a while: "I have a big orchard with cherry trees at home."   (source)
    evasively = in a manner that avoids directly answering a question
  • BRACK: How do you mean, Mrs. Tesman?
    HEDDA: [Evasively.] Oh, nothing--nothing.   (source)
    evasively = in an attempt to avoid answering a question
  • BIFF [evasively]: I'm not hateful, Mom.   (source)
    evasively = trying to avoid answering a question
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  • My opponent's movements were relentless and precise, and I spent the first few waves just trying to evade him.†   (source)
  • "He told me a story" I said evasively.†   (source)
  • After weeks in Chequamegon woods, Edgar felt sure that, able-bodied, they could evade any single pursuer.†   (source)
  • Maybe we needed to give shape to the opaque, deep-down pain that evades both sense and senses.†   (source)
  • That night, sleep evades him.†   (source)
  • "Yes, we've been on the road for a few days," Peter replied evasively, suddenly turning hot and cold as he remembered that the details on their passports identified them as coming from the Mecklenburg region.†   (source)
  • The local press was waiting for us outside security, but we managed to evade them thanks to Annabeth, who lured them away in her invisible Yankees cap, shouting, "They're over by the frozen yogurt!†   (source)
  • Wes's body language was evasive.†   (source)
  • Marsha didn't trust the woman and was evasive when she made inquiries.†   (source)
  • "Uh, no," Rose says evasively, walking away from us and toward them.†   (source)
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  • I told Thomas we had to split up and I started the practiced evasive maneuvers, running in the patterns.†   (source)
  • I daresay that is his — er — eventual plan," said Fudge evasively.†   (source)
  • Mr. Owens himself was more evasive and less imaginative.†   (source)
  • The more stubbornly evasive Williams became, the more Lawton seemed to encourage him.†   (source)
  • Her sympathy for the baby and for all of the Takamis began to slip as sleep evaded her, and she secretly began to wish for the baby's death if such a thing could mean silence.†   (source)
  • He's taking evasive action.†   (source)
  • "Listen to this," said Jess, and he told about confiding to an American woman in a Vancouver saloon that he was evading the draft.†   (source)
  • "I'm comfortable with the term 'war resister,' " I told everyone, "but I don't need to dodge or evade the draft—that's not why I'm here."†   (source)
  • In that brief time Charlotte managed to evade the older children who were minding her and wander out of the loop.†   (source)
  • I throw my knife at the oncoming mutt but the creature somersaults, evading the blade, and stays on its trajectory.†   (source)
  • "I just don't want to speak for you," said Kate evasively.†   (source)
  • Even airborne, there were times sleep evaded me, though I never panicked then.†   (source)
  • It's a wonder you've evaded the government for so long—but you can't hide now, not when your own family or friends are at risk.†   (source)
  • Weak, stupid, confused, cowardly, evasive—she had hated herself for everything she had been, but she had never thought of herself as a liar.†   (source)
  • Computer, what evasive action can we take?†   (source)
  • Eleanor had an answer for everything—but she still managed to evade most of Park's questions.†   (source)
  • It ruined my chance to play the game of evading the conductor with my pals.†   (source)
  • Boris—leaning against the frame of the door, gnawing the side of his thumb nail—shrugged evasively.†   (source)
  • To use in a game of Russian roulette if you want to keep fit at the same time (bricks at ten paces, turn and throw, no evasive action allowed).†   (source)
  • To evade Mexican police and immigration authorities, the children jump onto and off of the moving train cars.†   (source)
  • I'm talking about Henri thinking that he could somehow evade them by understanding them a little more.†   (source)
  • "It's dark," he began evasively, dodging a low branch, "so I might have missed something, but ....no."†   (source)
  • Elinor kept at him for a while, but Mo evaded all her questions.†   (source)
  • We kept jumping hurdles, kept breaking from the constraints, kept evading the border guards of every new trek.†   (source)
  • Mack's odd request predictably started a barrage of questions from Willie, questions that Mack tried to answer as evasively as he could.†   (source)
  • And why do you look so skinny?" she continued asking, but we evaded her questions.†   (source)
  • No sense of evading the question, merely a blank stare.†   (source)
  • Perceptive enough to know you're evading the question," I say.†   (source)
  • "We call him our Labrador evader," Jenny apologized with the kind of smile only a proud mother can give.†   (source)
  • "On the other side of the river," I said evasively.†   (source)
  • But the companionship he craved evaded him; he couldn't risk familiarity.†   (source)
  • He reads about the riots that took place during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and about Dr. Benjamin Spock, the baby doctor, being sentenced to two years in jail for threatening to counsel draft evaders.†   (source)
  • She searches for his face, but it evades her, slips from her, each time she turns to it.†   (source)
  • I called her longdistance, in Philadelphia, to find out, and she was suddenly evasive.†   (source)
  • As long as they remain aloft, they evade the danger.†   (source)
  • I could see she knew my words for an evasion, but she didn't pursue the question.†   (source)
  • He had no intention of paying his debts and was confident he could evade prosecution through guile and charm.†   (source)
  • Aidid supporters had mutilated the dead soldiers' bodies while the pilot and copilot evaded capture.†   (source)
  • Now she hesitated again, but there was no question of evasion now; it was reduced to tell the truth or tell a lie.†   (source)
  • If we detect another submarine or surface ship you will inform me at once and instantly initiate evasion drill.†   (source)
  • BMW drivers take evasive action at the drop of a hat, emulating the drivers in the BMW advertisements-this is how they convince themselves they didn't get ripped off.†   (source)
  • He respected the law, the nation, and tradition, and no one could accuse him of any greater offense than tax evasion.†   (source)
  • He was worse than Saddam Hussein, disappearing, evading the prying eye of the satellites, keeping his identity and location secret even from the many CIA informers who were close to him.†   (source)
  • I tried evasive humor.†   (source)
  • She's very evasive.†   (source)
  • When she asked him the reason for those unusual changes in his spiritual health, she received an evasive answer.†   (source)
  • If someone managed to evade the infrared detectors and got into the house, a 115-decibel siren would go off.†   (source)
  • I don't know just why my successful evasion of chemistry should have floated into my mind there in Jay Cee's office.†   (source)
  • Ky shakes his head, evading my question.†   (source)
  • "No evasions, please," the Baron said, and the tightness of his voice exposed the rein on his anger.†   (source)
  • Are you evading my questions, Eric?†   (source)
  • If she accused her mother of reading her diary, LuLing would become evasive, never admitting that she had done so, while also saying, "A daughter should have no secrets from a mother."†   (source)
  • I considered my answer and settled on the kind of evasive response I'd used on my mother over the years.†   (source)
  • ...forty-five women were arrested in Austin, Texas, yesterday for attempting to evade the birth registry.†   (source)
  • Bryn tells me I'm withdrawn, evasive, cold.†   (source)
  • There he evaded death by a miracle and now he was serving his time here quietly.†   (source)
  • He would look off into the middle distance, not angry or bored or evasive—just detached, free of the connectedness of events, it seemed.†   (source)
  • I watched Brendan's 'muscular hands try to shift, 'missing gears, try to steer 'around potholes, not quite evading 'most of them.†   (source)
  • Each green crystal numeral slips into the place of another, evading human eyes.†   (source)
  • While Adam mastered land navigation through the woods, Kelley memorized grocery store aisles for quick in-and-out missions; as he skillfully blew up an enemy bunker, she deftly changed a "blown-out" diaper; he evaded a mock enemy, while she dodged projectile vomit.†   (source)
  • He did not feel today, as he had felt for so long, that she was evading him, locking herself away from him, forcing him to remain a stranger in her life.†   (source)
  • I ask evasively.†   (source)
  • For a time Eugenides evaded his request, but Lyopidus built up his arrogance, telling him over and over how clever he had been to defeat the Sky God, how much more clever he could be if he put his mind to it.†   (source)
  • The answer, which he knew but rejected as "an evasion of the deeper, the human question," was plain to simpler minds: the chaplain's clerk, then thirty-eight, was a thief, a small-scale robber who over a period of twenty years had served sentences in five different states.†   (source)
  • But whenever I tried to do this, he evaded so easily that it was as if he could read my mind, see what was coming, and for once move gracefully to sidestep the issue entirely.†   (source)
  • You're evading.†   (source)
  • She'd call me minx and try to hem me in with more specific instructions, which I would find new ways to evade.†   (source)
  • He certainly thought no ill of having children employed; she must not seem to criticize him; she answered evasively: "Well, of course they might do that.†   (source)
  • Max, the youngest Lightwood, squeezed his way around Maryse and darted into the room, evading his mother's reaching hand.†   (source)
  • When his friends asked him how many women he had had in his life, he would try to evade the question, and when they pressed him further he would say, Well, two hundred, give or take a few.†   (source)
  • He told Farmer that he felt liberated from "the self-hatred and evasion of ethnicity" he'd felt in Muscatine.†   (source)
  • Aside from the crooked matches, they said, sumo was rife with drug use and sexcapades, bribes and tax evasion, and close ties to the yakuza, the Japanese mafia.†   (source)
  • Aarfy was like an eerie ogre in a dream, incapable of being bruised or evaded, and Yossarian dreaded him for a complex of reasons he was too petrified to untangle.†   (source)
  • I covered a high school football game again because the sports desk was shorthanded, and I got the names right, mostly, although the numbers still evaded me.†   (source)
  • The adults get mad, evasive, and shut you up if you ask.†   (source)
  • Cal, she was sure, had been dodging and weaving, avoiding and evading her since their hike to the Pagan Stone.†   (source)
  • Max glanced at his roommate, thinking of the night David had vanished to fetch the grimoires, just barely evading Cooper.†   (source)
  • Her captain had turned her upriver, but not quickly enough to evade the wildfire.†   (source)
  • She had been deposed in early February and had been evasive, in Jake's opinion.†   (source)
  • Kennedy counters the reverend's evasiveness.†   (source)
  • The lazy circles turn into evasive maneuvers.†   (source)
  • 'Not much — only hints and riddles,' said Frodo evasively.†   (source)
  • He had stopped evading things, sliding through, over, and around difficulties.†   (source)
  • Dispatches from Philadelphia that evaded capture at sea took at least six weeks to reach Paris under ideal sailing conditions.†   (source)
  • Hyzenthlay had promised that they were to be protected by a great bird and that the new officer was going to work a secret trick to evade the pursuit—a trick which would defeat even the General.†   (source)
  • In all these years, he always evaded his pursuers, and simply moved from land to land, conquering them, then returning to a place we could never discover.†   (source)
  • If we sought to evade such, we would miss the lessons God willed us to learn, at the cost of worse torments after our death.†   (source)
  • A slow motion one-two punch he hadn't been able to evade.†   (source)
  • This evasiveness wasn't like Bob.†   (source)
  • Was she evading me?†   (source)
  • Enraged at the evasion of the jinn, the Coven no longer cared for fey secrets.†   (source)
  • They ask how I came to know him and I have to answer that I don't remember which is a little evasive.†   (source)
  • Thoughts evaded me, hiding in the vast stretch of clinical whiteness to which I seemed connected only by a scale of receding grays.†   (source)
  • It was as if a decision were being reached without discussion: evasion was to be avoided.†   (source)
  • When I asked if I might meet her sister, she was evasive, callous.†   (source)
  • I was dubbed the Black Pimpernel, a somewhat derogatory adaptation of Baroness Orczy's fictional character the Scarlet Pimpernel, who daringly evaded capture during the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • Smith somehow evaded them.†   (source)
  • What happened was this: Archie had cut a class and glided through the corridor, evading the brothers.†   (source)
  • Evasion takes money, and few things work better than American cash.†   (source)
  • Because we have a flat bottom, we can stay in the shallows to evade submarines.†   (source)
  • After weeks of evading these questions, I caved in and gave the sergeant a brief explanation about why Mother and I did not get along.†   (source)
  • Do not hide behind the cowardly evasion that man is born with free will, but with a 'tendency' to evil.†   (source)
  • Much of this control is social, a thing which laws and institutions and uniforms enforce, but much of it must be personal, and I do not see how we can evade the obligation to take full responsibility for what we individually do.†   (source)
  • A woman who had somehow evaded police lines and tumbled through the snow too close to the carnage was sick and had to be helped away.†   (source)
  • There were no physical objects to avoid, no obstacles on the obstacle course, no wires or prongs or covered pits to detect and then evade.†   (source)
  • We've done our best to dissuade her,' I evaded, inadequately.†   (source)
  • She evaded him.†   (source)
  • The giant they had spoken with earlier had been evasive when asked about what lay down the one tunnel they had yet to explore.†   (source)
  • They have neodogs now that are indoctrinated from puppyhood to observe and evade without blowing their tops at the mere sight or smell of a Bug.†   (source)
  • "Look out," Joe warned Rose, but she also saw the oncoming assailant and was already taking evasive action.†   (source)
  • One of us is going to have to blink first, so I take a tentative step back as if I'm trying to evade a predator, hoping he won't notice that I'm moving until I'm already gone.†   (source)
  • I am happy Reb Saunders knows now about his son's reading," he said quietly, evading my question.†   (source)
  • I didn't know anything at the time; Dennis had been as cryptic and evasive as ever, Jack professing nothing.†   (source)
  • My brother, who was only four years old then, still remembers painfully strict meals at Rock Hill with Bampa grinding his teeth at one end of the table—as if his carefully built ceremonies were being evaded by a weak-willed family.†   (source)
  • Robert and Josiah evaded her; they were deaf to those undertones.†   (source)
  • Helen's glance was evasive, her face expressionless; she could have been holding still for a department store cosmetician.†   (source)
  • Juries don't like evasive answers.†   (source)
  • "Just kindly go to the phone, please, young lady," Mrs. Glass said evasively.†   (source)
  • It could have been put in the Constitution to guard against attempts to limit and evade the legitimate authorities of the Union.†   (source)
  • Or maybe it was perfectly regular, and Abby had just been sensitized by too many past experiences with Denny—too many evasions and semi-truths and suspect alibis.†   (source)
  • After giving him a hurried, evasive account of her time at Auschwitz, she fell into a deep depression and was bedridden for many days.†   (source)
  • GUIL: What about our evasions?†   (source)
  • However, I was not deliberately trying to be evasive; I was only trying to follow the operation order which had been laid down for me in Ottawa: Para.†   (source)
  • But somehow people could not face what appeared inevitable, and they sought to evade it by viewing these warnings as threats.†   (source)
  • There might also be some resentment, some resistance, along with actual evasion.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I should say she indulged in certain evasions which at the time were necessary in order for her to retain her composure.†   (source)
  • HELEN comes in groping, baffled, but interested in the new surroundings; ANNIE evades her exploring hand, her gaze not leaving the child.†   (source)
  • As sometimes happens in such cases, the whole thing got out of all proportion, and he stood hemming and hawing, evading the question, for a full minute.†   (source)
  • The people are looking for honest answers, not easy answers; clear leadership, not false claims and evasiveness and politics as usual.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the car that had actually done the job continued elaborate evasive action towards the Canadian border.†   (source)
  • Randy rejected the easy evasion of excuses.†   (source)
  • What were their interests and their material resources, how did they cope with the difficulties of the times, how did they evade the laws?†   (source)
  • MARY Evading his eyes.†   (source)
  • Her answer was long, rambling, antagonistic, and evasive.†   (source)
  • PAPILLON: Let's have no evasions.†   (source)
  • "I could eat a hamburger," said Harris, swinging out of the road under the sign in some automatic gesture of evasion.†   (source)
  • Or, if Espers have been evaded before the murder, they make it impossible to conceal the guilt afterwards.†   (source)
  • So when he repeated his question, after her long evasive silence, during which she refused to look into his eyes, she was silenced by their inexorably different needs.†   (source)
  • I try to be evasive without flat-out lying.†   (source)
  • The place is prepared for us, if we can evade the Harkonnens.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, I probably would have just evaded them by jumping to light speed.†   (source)
  • I hadn't given her any warning of my visit: I had no wish to be evaded.†   (source)
  • But this is not a thing you can fight, only evade.†   (source)
  • "I'm not here to evade the draft," I would explain.†   (source)
  • But she's always been evasive, you can never pin her down.†   (source)
  • I reached out to pet him, and that sent him into evasive maneuvers.†   (source)
  • The only way to evade them is to find sanctuary with the Varden.†   (source)
  • GaoLing tried to laugh, but she also looked evasive.†   (source)
  • It is intended that they should know this, because we will again evade detection on the trip home.†   (source)
  • I was certain of nothing except that evasive action was over.†   (source)
  • Ah, well ....you can't evade me forever, Harry!†   (source)
  • "No, we're also going to ...er ...take evasive action!" said Zaphod with a sudden access of panic.†   (source)
  • They have evaded the whole maze by leaping over it in long, flat parabolas.†   (source)
  • The red dragon shied to Eragon's left but could not evade him.†   (source)
  • It's not the lying that counts, it's evading the necessity for it.†   (source)
  • He struck again, and Eragon evaded the sword by leaning back, like a tree swaying in the wind.†   (source)
  • When he noticed I had him in my sights, he began evasive action.†   (source)
  • Even the Padishah Emperor's Truthsayer couldn't evade that responsibility when the duty call came.†   (source)
  • The longer you evade the Ra'zac, the more desperate he'll become.†   (source)
  • Our mission, first of all, is to evade detection by anyone.†   (source)
  • "...and evasive enchantments generally," concluded Hermione.†   (source)
  • And because you are here, because you have the religion, victory cannot evade you in the end.†   (source)
  • When questioned about this, the gals were smiling and evasive.†   (source)
  • Evading the Empire will be harder than ever.†   (source)
  • He wants to see what he's up against before he tries to evade.†   (source)
  • He'd have to evade before he could get on with what he wanted to do.†   (source)
  • She tried to sweep the spears away with her talons, but the Urgals jumped back and evaded her.†   (source)
  • They said I didn't have a true vocation, I was just evading my duties.†   (source)
  • The moment carries its own truth; you can't evade it.†   (source)
  • On one hand, we have a missile submarine attempting to evade detection.†   (source)
  • There's a way to evade the Harkonnens," she said.†   (source)
  • Knowing where the trap is — that's the first step in evading it.†   (source)
  • But Captain Ramius evaded them brilliantly!†   (source)
  • Jackson threw his fighter into a violent evasive turn to the left.†   (source)
  • Evaded them, bribed them, outmaneuvered them, or simply outran them.†   (source)
  • I just shook my head, knowing this was him evading the question.†   (source)
  • They wanted to talk about what had happened with Asclepius, but Leo evaded them.†   (source)
  • The man was intelligent, not some clumsy butcher who just happened to evade the FBI for years.†   (source)
  • I scrambled for my numbness, my denial, but it evaded me.†   (source)
  • I took another evasive turn, and Zia yelled, "There!"†   (source)
  • I twisted to evade the blow, and instead of my right leg, her sword struck my left, cutting it off .†   (source)
  • There was no established procedure for evasive action.†   (source)
  • But, in practice, the wording is not precise and legislatures can evade paying judges.†   (source)
  • Guilt later in Phoenix, where I could evade vexing questions in the daily wheel of work.†   (source)
  • He would know if I tried to lie or evade.†   (source)
  • The Clutter slayers, granted a reprieve by a Federal judge, evaded their date.†   (source)
  • Whirling around, Yarbog ran at him for a third time, and once more, Roran managed to evade him.†   (source)
  • They'll not let us get the distance to turn again, and they're too fast to evade.†   (source)
  • While he thinks I'm running, hiding, evading-I'm walking right into his nest.†   (source)
  • The number of men made it difficult to evade all of their blows and strike back in return.†   (source)
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