875 examples of evade in sentences

40 Must you not by mean lies evade To-morrow's duns from every trade?

The blood that from the heart incessant rolls In many a crimson tide, then here and there In smaller rills disparted, as it flows Propelled, the serous particles evade Through the open pores, and with the ambient air Entangling mix.

It is not my especial province; but I neither seek to evade nor assume responsibility."

If men in any way sought to evade duty, provost-marshals were ordered to bring them into line, if necessary at the pistol's point.

There has been no desire to evade those obligations.

V. fail, neglect, omit, elude, evade, give the go-by to, set aside, ignore; shut one's eyes to, close one's eyes to.

V. violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail. call to account &c (disapprobation) 932. 927a.

This difficulty the present writer has it in his power to evade, in great measure, by confining himself mainly to the designs and operations of General Lee.

You must, therefore, urge the point all the more, and not let your opponent evade it, even when you do not know where the weakness which you have hit upon really lies.

Hence the embitterment of defeat, apart from any question of injustice; and hence recourse to that last weapon, that last trick, which you cannot evade by mere politeness.

Catherine was for ever intriguing and plotting for the fortune of her sons and the downfall of her son-in-law, but Henry always managed to evade the webs she wove.

It forbade adjournments intended to evade these prohibitions.

esquivar, to avoid, evade.

Through an oversight he was omitted from the list of those liable to the one year of military service, and the sweets of exemption tempted him to evade the three-year military course.

Those who got in in advance of the law were of a determined character, and their number was so great that they relied on the confusion to evade detection.

The obstinate determination with which every one tried to evade the administrative laws on this subject, is explained, in fact, by the general taste of the French nation for pork.

Seldom could one detect any attempt to evade the obvious.

But she did not evade the issue "I despise him, Mr. Carroll.

We know, too, the threadbare sophistries by which slaveholders and their apologists seek to evade such testimony.

The danger will be revived, that the ingenuity of the Legislature may evade or pervert the rule, so as to perpetuate the power where it shall be lodged in the first instance.

And another bright instance of the value of individualism is the selling of British shipping to neutral buyers just when the country is in the most urgent need of every ship it can get, and the deliberate transfer to America of a number of British businesses to evade paying a proper share of the national bill in taxation.

But the pistol hand might evade his grasp, and there would be brief time to struggle for it with those bayonets within arm's length.

Far from seeking to evade the penalty of his crime, he admitted it with a calmness and composure perfectly unshaken; and on the 27th his sentence was pronounced and executed with such barbarity that we shall avoid the detail.

There were enemies there; he was often pursued by savages, and he often saw Kitty captured; nor could he ever evade their wandering vigilance and release her.

I knew that he was expecting me to come to his room as usual, and I turned over in my mind a dozen plans to evade seeing him that night.

875 examples of  evade  in sentences